Manufacturing of Army rifles in the United States during World War 1. Workers at a small arms plant in the U.S. examine wooden rifle stocks during World War 1. Men wheeling numerous dollies of rifle stocks to another part of the factory. Fully assembled rifles (appear to be either 1914 or M1917),loaded on a tray are lowered by African American workers using a manual pulley hoist to place them into a bath of hot cosmoline grease (for preservation). Then they are raised and moved to above a draining table, where they are removed and placed on a dolly. Men clean up the drippings. Next scene shows an African American worker placing the new rifles in wooden boxes for shipment. Closeup of an open wooden box of rifles ready for closing and shipping. Workers stacking 10 wooden shipping boxes of rifles in a hand dolly and moving it to shipping dock.
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