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2 unusual facts about scrap


Scrap

Precious metals are metals with a high market value in any form, such as gold, silver, and platinum group metals.

Many specialised tools used in scrapyards, such as the Alligator shear which cuts metal using hydraulic force, can also be dangerous to untrained people.


1886–87 Royal Arsenal F.C. season

The match was played on a piece of scrap land in what is now Tiller Road on the Isle of Dogs.

Anne of Bohemia

The Westminster Chronicler called her "a tiny scrap of humanity", and Thomas Walsingham related a disastrous omen upon her arrival, where her ships smashed to pieces as soon as she had disembarked.

Armored Trooper Votoms

Armored Trooperoid Votoms Finder (ボトムズファインダー), an "alternate universe" OAV that centers around Aki Tesuno, a Bottoms guard for scrap salvagers and a pilot of a robotic mecha called an At or Altro (as opposed to VOTOMS' trademark Armored Trooper mecha).

Art Ingels

In 1956, while he was a race car builder at Kurtis Kraft, a famous builder of Indy race cars during the 1950s, he assembled the first Go-Kart in history out of scrap metal and a surplus West Bend Company two-stroke cycle engine.

Artsplosure

Visitors can engage in a life-size game of chess on a board and pieces designed by scrap metal sculptor Lyle Estill.

Belleville funicular tramway

The infrastructure of the funicular tramway was demolished, the cars were sold for scrap, and for many months were held somewhere in Issy-les-Moulineaux.

Branxholme locomotive dump

In 1927, when scrap steel was an uneconomic proposition, New Zealand Railways started dumping obsolete steam locomotives at Branxholme to arrest erosion.

Buchanan, Liberia

Stephen Ellis writes that during early 1994, ECOMOG '..Nigerian troops dismantled, and exported as second-hand plant or as scrap metal, industrial equipment worth some $50 million' which had remained intact when the port had earlier been occupied by the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, Charles Taylor's faction.

California Northern Railroad

Mare Island Naval Base, in Vallejo, is coming back alive to the newly established Mare Island Rail Service out of Olympia with scrap metal, rock, and boating material being shipped in and out of the Island.

Carmine Agnello

Undercover New York Police Department (NYPD) officers had set up a phony scrap metal business in Willets Point, Queens.

Charles-Auguste Lebourg

Five Wallace fountains were erected in Lisburn, in Northern Ireland, though three of these were destroyed for scrap metal during World War II.

Chief Judge Fargo

After armed gangs stormed the White House and were able to avoid jail sentences by intimidating juries, Fargo outlined a New Deal to scrap the principle of due process and create a combined police and judicial force who could fairly dispense instant justice – the Judges.

Competitive examination

This has led many states to scrap the entrances and base admissions on the school leaving marks which, unfortunately are none too reliable.

Empress of Blandings

Pirbright, who holds the post throughout Summer Lightning and Heavy Weather, is a taciturn man does the job in a solid manner, and enjoys a good scrap with would-be pig-nappers.

George Cohen, Sons and Company

George Cohen, Sons and Company was a scrap metal merchant with offices in Commercial Road, London.

Gracefield Branch

Following land reclamation in the 1950s & 1960s, an extensive network of sidings were built at Seaview to serve industrial interests, including the Ford Motor Vehicle Assembly Plant; oil terminals for BP, Caltex, Europa and Shell; Pacific Scrap; and the Ministry of Works.

Harry Needle Railroad Company

HNRC also operates as a scrap dealer, dismantling redundant locomotives and rolling stock, either on site, or at the scrapyard in Kingsbury.

HMS G3

In December 1921 G3, out of commission, was being towed north to be broken up for scrap when she broke her tether and came ashore at Scalby Mills, north of Scarborough.

HMS Goldfinch

She was wrecked on Start Point, Sanday Island, Orkney on 1915-02-18, and subsequently broken for scrap in April 1919.

James Siena

He was impressed by the “very independent, visionary spirit” of Alan Saret, who took him to the scrap yard and taught him about working with metal.

Joe Machine

In 1988 he was sent to Alston House Approved School, Rochester, for the theft of scrap material, and the following year to Dover Borstal for young offenders, after burgling a greengrocers in Leysdown (Isle of Sheppey).

Kemaman Port

The East wharf was constructed to handle the import/export materials of the Perwaja Steel works, and is designed to import iron ores, and scrap.

Lake Macatawa

The eastern end of the lake is marked by industrial development within the City of Holland, and includes a coal-fired power plant, scrap metal recycling facility, pharmaceutical production plant, aggregate mineral loading dock, and a pickle production facility owned by the H.J. Heinz company.

Lima LS-1000

Chief Mechanical Officer Bert Townsend resigned in protest of the decision to scrap the plans to build steam locomotives.

LMS diesel shunter 7052

After withdrawal in 1966, it was sold to a scrap metal company in Long Marston, which used it as a yard shunter for a further three years, after which it was scrapped.

Louis Cruises

Coral (2004-2013) – Sold for scrap; previously Triton.

Martini-Enfield

The Khyber Pass region between Pakistan and Afghanistan has long had a reputation for producing unlicensed, home-made copies of firearms using whatever materials are available- more often than not, railway sleepers, junked motor vehicles, and scrap metal.

Meerut scissors

Meerut Scissors is a pair of scissors made of recycled metal scrap by the microlevel industrial units run by a community in Meerut, North India.

Mutoid Waste Company

In the early 1990s the Mutoids moved to Santarcangelo di Romagna, where they set up a scrap village called Mutonia and continued working, displaying and performing at squats and libertarian celebrations in the Emilia Romagna region.

MV Adula

She served in this capacity until broken up for scrap at Briton Ferry in May 1953.

Nesting algorithm

Validation of a combination involves a simple Stock - Yield - Kerf = Scrap calculation.

Russian coast defense ship General Admiral Graf Apraksin

Okinoshima was decommissioned on 1 April 1922 and was sold as scrap in 1924 to a private firm, which transformed her into a memorial ship located at Tsuyazaki, Fukuoka, commemorating the Japanese victory at the Battle of Tsushima.

Russian ironclad Kreml

The ship was placed in reserve in 1904 and disarmed the following year before being sold for scrap in 1908.

Scrap Saturday

Scrap Saturday was a satirical radio sketch show created by Dermot Morgan, who was also the main performer on the show, and Gerry Stembridge, which ran on RTÉ Radio 1 on Saturday mornings from 1989 until 1991.

Shipbreaker

Ship breaking, a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships for scrap recycling.

Shipyard Railway

The United States Maritime Commission searched and found obsolete New York City "El" elevated cars awaiting scrap.

SS Admiral

With the water dropping, St. Louis Marine announced plans on July 17, 2011 to move it to Columbia, Illinois where the hull will be dismantled and sold for scrap.

SS Matsonia

SS Matsonia (1932), originally named the Monterey, then renamed in 1957, before being sold and becoming the Lurline and then the Britanis for Chandris Lines, operating as a cruise ship for the until 2000, when she was sold for scrap and sank on her way to Indian ship breakers.

SS President Grant

SS President Grant originally the 1903 Servian, purchased by Hamburg Amerikanische Paketfahrt Actien-Gesellschaft renamed the SS President Grant in 1907, interned and seized on U.S. entry into WW I, served as USS President Grant(SP-3014), transferred to U.S. Army and renamed USAT Republic alternately served Army and Navy as USS Republic (AP-33) and again as USAT Republic until sold for scrap 1952.

Steven Ciobo

Ciobo said Peter Garrett's move to scrap the Uluru climb would be another setback to the tourism industry which had been hit hard by the global economic downturn.

Stratford St. Mary

Stratford St. Mary is a village hosting a small handful of business like The Bricklayer's Pub, The Swan Inn, Anchor Inn, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust, Carefore Homes, The Access Group, Formula One Autocentres Ltd, Naycol Scrap Metal Ltd, SITA UK, East Anglia Services, Hall Farm, The Anchor Inn and ABC Preschool.

Television Centre, Southampton

This linked the British Rail sidings at Northam to Driver's Wharf where scrap metal was loaded into ships.

Third gender

On Dec. 27, 2007, the Supreme Court of Nepal issued a decision mandating that the government scrap all laws that discriminated based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity and establish a committee to study same-sex marriage policy.

Tiger-class cruiser

With the running down of the UK's carrier fleet, from the political angle it was viewed as unwise by Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Defence Minister Denis Healey to scrap the officially new and expensive Tiger-class cruisers and it was believed they might add to antisubmarine capabilities and free space on the remaining carriers helicopters, and therefore in 1965, work began on Blake for her to be converted into a helicopter cruiser while Tiger began her conversion in 1968.

United States H-class submarine

Finally struck from the Navy List in 1930, they were sold for scrap in 1931 and 1933.

USS Maine

She participated in the voyage of the Great White Fleet, and was decommissioned in 1920 to be sold for scrap in 1923.

Vimoutiers Tiger tank

After Morat’s death, ownership passed to another scrap dealer in Caen, but when they attempted to start scrapping the tank, the local people of Vimoutiers decided to purchase the tank as a historical monument for 6,000 Francs.

Violet Vanbrugh

In 1889 she joined the Kendals at the Royal Court Theatre as Lady Gillingham in The Weaker Sex, and at the end of the year travelled with them to the U.S., where she played Lady Ingram in the comedy A Scrap of Paper and in dramas such as The Iron Master, Impulse and A White Lie and comedies such The Weaker Sex.

Zmaj R-1

In early April, the bombing of the airport in Zemun a plane Zmaj R-1 was damaged in late June, the Germans were cut and thrown into the scrap metal.


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