Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1916 — Authority on Steel Production. [ARTICLE]

Authority on Steel Production.

~Sir Robert Hadfleld, who has been selected by the British government to assume charge of the engineering works that it has obtained power to take over for the manufacture of war material, is one of the greatest living authorities on the production of steel. In addition to the Bessemet medal, which is the blue ribbon of the Iron and Steel institute of Great Britain. he -has received equally high awards from similar societies In sk most evefy country of the civilised world. Inventor of manganese steel, he is chairman of the lladfield Steel Foundry oompany Ltd., at Sheffield one of the biggest ordnance and pro jectlle concerns in' the United king dom. in fact, in thf world.