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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1941
Page
1
Interior view shows a 50 pound TNT packed box being prepared at the Kankakee Ordnance works south of Joliet. About 50 men work in a separate concrete box factory outside the main area. operations include final finishing and automatic nailing on bottoms. A worker in the flaking house fills paper lined boxes as TNT flows down a chute.
Describes scale based filling of TNT into 50 pound containers. A vibrator densifies the TNT, then boxes move along a chute to a nailing station where tops are attached by a spark proof machine. Finished boxes are loaded onto plant cars for shipment to storage magazines and shell loading plants.
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