NATIONAL MUNITIONS COMPANY Eldred Warehouses

View of warehouses looking northeast, and showing fuse shipping boxes stored outside under tarps.

General view of the warehouses showing freight cars of incoming material ready to be unloaded, and at left cars being loaded with finished fuses.

WAREHOUSE No 2 Exterior view showing type of construction, foundation and excess material stored on platform.

Entrance to Warehouse No 2 showing building loaded to capacity with bombs and fuses, even on the platform.

WAREHOUSE No 3 This building was 450 ft long and a covered platform entirely around it. A standard gauge railroad extends along one side and the plant's narrow gauge railroad runs the length of the other side. All the warehouses had service by both railroads.

OFFLOADING Material handling detail shows use of roller conveyor in unloading bomb shipping cases from box car to warehouse.

Material handling detail close-up of unloading shipping cases in box car.

WAREHOUSE INTERIOR Interior view of warehouse stocked to capacity with empty bombs and fuses. This building is 150 ft long and 40 ft wide, and with an eight foot covered platform all around it.

Narrow Gauge Train For the transportation of materials about the plant, there were over two miles of narrow gauge railroad. This picture shows one of the Plymouth locomotives and five tram cars loaded with bomb shipping cases being hauled up the shell line. The gasoline locomotive exhausts through water.