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1945 Australian National Airways Stinson crash

The Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr Arthur Drakeford, made a detailed statement to the House of Representatives that an undetected fatigue crack in a welded joint in a boom attachment fitting in the left wing caused the crash.

Bag-in-box

In 1967, Charles Malpas and Penfolds Wines patented a plastic, air-tight tap welded into a metallised film bladder, making storage much more convenient for consumers.

Bilenky Cycle Works

Founded by Stephen Bilenky, a member of the musical group The Notekillers, in 1983, BCW fabricates both frames and complete bicycles, ranging from TIG welded track bikes to intricately lugged tandems.

Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis

In 1999, a 14-foot high, welded stainless steel sculpture by Wiktor Szostalo was installed on the side lawn of the church.

Douglas Dragonfly

Aiming to overcome the outdated image, designers were commissioned from the Reynolds Tube Company to develop a completely new open duplex frame of welded tubing, including a swinging arm with twin Girling dampers (state of the art for the time) with leading link front suspension.

Ferrari 612 Scaglietti

Its space frame, developed with Alcoa, is made from extrusions and castings of the material, and the aluminium body is welded on.

Fiat Barchetta

Car bodies were welded at ILCAS in Sparone Canavese, and final assembly was done in Chivasso by the coachbuilder Maggiora.

Gazelle FRV

Built on a Mercedes-Benz U1100 Unimog 416 2.5 ton light truck chassis, it consisted of an armoured hull of welded ballistic steel plate incorporating one rear and two side doors.

Głowiński monoplane

Modelled superficially after the French Blériot XI, Głowiński's design differed from that aircraft most significantly in using a frame of welded steel tube rather than wood, and that an engine was mounted higher.

Grease duct

Field fabricated is typically made from 16 gauge carbon steel, all welded, per local codes, which is then externally treated with fireproofing.

Green Party of Ontario candidates, 1990 Ontario provincial election

A Globe and Mail article described the device as a "rainbow-coloured jungle gym of discarded wrought iron welded into an outlandish Dr. Seuss-like contraption topped by a colossal wire umbrella and powered by a unicycle", adding that "one rider pedals while a grab bag of musicians (the Subtonic Monks) ride, playing improvisational rhythms".

Hegy R.C.H.I. El Chuparosa

The fuselage was constructed from welded steel tubing, with wooden wing spars from a J-3 Cub, the ailerons were made from 1929 Douglas O-38 rudders and the engine cheeks cowlings were made from Fairchild 24 wheelpants.

Hoverwork BHT130

As a civil passenger hovercraft it seats up to 130 passengers, hence the numerics in its name, the first welded aluminium hull (fabricated by Aluminium Ship Builders, Fishbourne, Isle of Wight) arrived at Hoverwork's St Helens works in August 2005.

Lake steamers of North America

A new twin-screw vessel was designed for the hull being welded back together at Lakeport.

Landing Craft Utility

Its welded steel hull provides high durability with deck loads of 800 pounds per square foot.

Łowicz

Near the town is the Maurzyce Bridge, the first welded road-bridge in the world, built in 1928 across the river Słudwia.

Marawing 1-L Malamut

The fuselage is made from welded steel tubing, while the wings are wooden with, all covered in doped aircraft fabric.

Nancy Metz White

A smaller welded outdoor sculpture, Helping Hands, whimsically constructed from hand die forms recycled from a glove factory, is on permanent display at the Mead Public Library in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

Nikitin NV-6

The fuselage of welded KhMA steel tubing, and lower wing were taken from the NV-1 sporting aircraft of 1933.

Old US 71 – Wilton segment

The winner of a high traffic contest in Bates, Illinois, Bates-type pavement is concrete with welded wire reinforcement.

Permit-class submarine

Joints in any equipment carrying seawater must be welded (not brazed), and every hull penetration larger than a specified size can be quickly shut by a remote hydraulic mechanism.

Reginald Gardiner

(A sound no longer heard since welded rail joins were introduced.) "Trains" was released as a 78 and 45 by English Decca Records (F 5278) which remained on catalogue into the 1970s.

Rolandas Kalinauskas RK-5 Ruth

The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing supplemented with wooden stringers, while the wing is of wooden structure, all covered in doped aircraft fabric.

Rose Garrard

and the Cascade Gates 2007, in welded steel at the Clock Tower Well Room in North Malvern.

Słudwia River

The river is best known for the 1928 Maurzyce Bridge built across it, the first welded road bridge in the world, designed by Stefan Bryła.

Spherulite

Megaspherulites as large as 0.91 meter occur within rhyolite exposures on Steens Mountain, Oregon and ones as large as 1.83 meters in diameter occur within welded tuffs exposed near Klondyke, Arizona.

ST Wattle

The Wattle was recognised by the National Trust as being significant as an example of depression era Australian shipbuilding and of the transition to welded construction from riveted construction.

STAR21

Cars 1 to 3 used welded hollow aluminium extrusions, cars 4 to 5 used brazed aluminium honeycomb panels, and cars 6 to 9 used an aircraft-style Duralumin fuselage construction.

TID-class tug

Richard Dunston Ltd., a ship-building company with yards at Thorne on the Stainforth and Keadby Canal and at Hessle on the Humber, had pioneered the use of welded construction, rather than the more conventional rivetting, since 1933, although they had never built an all-welded vessel.

Vervoost FV-3 Delphin

The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing, with the aft part covered in doped aircraft fabric and the forward part covered in carbon fibre panels.


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