Abstract
A paper on this subject by DENYS RAN DOLPH, BSc, CEng, AFRAeS, FIProdE, Chairman, Wilkinson Sword Ltd, was delivered to the Society on January 30th, 1974. H. M. Finniston, PhD, FRS, Chairman, British Steel Corporation, was in the Chair. The lecture was illustrated by slides and a film illustrating sword making in the Wilkinson Sword company's works.
The following shortened version of the lecture is published by kind permission of the Royal Society of Arts, to whom grateful acknowledgment is made for providing the manuscript of the lecture, from which this version has been prepared.
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