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and built by them the "Upper-Ground Layout for Burning out Lyddite Shells,"
which was also approved and introduced on June 29, 1921.
Lastly the problem of the burning out of Amatol-filled shells arose before
me, and this question has also been successfullygone over point by point, and the
method lias been approved and introduced, practically by order of the same
French General Inspection of Ammunition, in all Pickett et Fills Factories on
September21, 1921. I also introduced my special rules for burning out Ammonal
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'FIG. 9. BCR:iISC OUT ~o\~ATOL-FILLED SHELLS
shells, grenades, mines, airbombs, etc., filled with different kinds of explosives.
These I am unable to deal with in a short article.
From this chronological description one c'an see what important work was
performed and carried effect most successfully in France. French specialists
greeted my work sympathetically and heartily. One wrote me, for instance, as
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follows: "Fai 1a confiance pour ce1a dans mtre nouvelle methode de brulage.
Fespere bientot voir 1e rendement griice Ii ce procede_" (Aug. 17, 1921.) In
England, however, when I went there personally to the authorities, I was less.
successful in introducing my processes.
In 1922, under the title, Methods for the Safe Burning Out of Lyddite and
Other Shells, I described the different breaking down processes applicable to
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