Equipment, Army ammunition plants

In 1951 Day Zimmermann, Inc. was awarded an initial contract to operate the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant. Fire protection systems for equipment and processes consisted of fuzeable links and quartzoid bulbs for sensing fires. In the early 1950 s, a plan was initiated to replace the existing systems with the improved Heat Actuating Device. The H-A-D greatly improved the effectiveness of the deluge systems and was considered adequate at the time. 

High Rate Detonator Production Study. As part of the overall program to modernize the US Govt owned, company operated, Army Ammunition Loading and Assembly Plants, it is planned to develop fully automatic equipment to manuf nonelectric detonators at the rate of 1200 per minute. The survey of literature sources and industry was undertaken to discover techniques and equipment that may be applicable, as described in Ref 1... 

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