Beating bombs into mufflers

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Beating bombs into mufflers

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Turning bombs into mufflers, Popular Science 1947 – “Practice air bombs, left over from the war, are being converted to a peacetime job. Air Forces trucks and autos in Germany urgently need mufflers, so the Bruck Air Ordnance Depot at Nuremberg is making them from surplus-bomb stocks. The project, started late in 1946, Has already turned out more than 4,600 truck mufflers. Now the production line is well into an order for 2,200 jeep mufflers. Capacity is 600 of these a week.”Link.

Other stuff made from bombs:

  • Stove made from unexploded bomb – Link.
  • Coffee tables made from jet parts… bombs and more… – Link.
  • Salvaged bomb makes a juvenile space ship – Link.

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