2-362-325 - Worldwide Photography/Heritage-Images

Forging at the foundry of AT Green & Sons Ltd, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1963. Impression die forging pounds or presses metal between two dies (called tooling) that contain a precut profile of the part being manufactured. Parts from a few ounces to 60,000 lbs can be made using this process. Although this one is being forged hot, some of the smaller parts can also be forged cold.