Explosive bonding of aluminium strip conductors to rails : visits to Alcan International Ltd, Banbury (TM-FM-042)

In October 1973 a group of B.R. Personnel visited the Alcan R&D Division at Banbury and was given details and a demonstration of a process for the explosive bonding of aluminium to mild steel. Alcan suggested that the process could, with the necessary modifications to the explosive charge, be made...