The holes for the rivets were punched by hand-punching with presses, and the 1,680 holes which each tank required cost seven shillings.
The tube has now been lifted from the oil tank and waits to be carried back to the gun shop lathes.
Every day I fill a great tank with the gravel and let water onto it.
This soaks through the gravel, and comes out a little pipe in the bottom of the tank of a beautiful yellow color; sometimes it is too dark, and then I have to thin it with more water.
Nevertheless occasionally persons desire it; and there are a few churches, chiefly in Wales, where a largetank of water, as well as a smaller font, is provided for such special cases.
There were several young men and women immersed by the preacher, in a large tank of water, in the middle of the meeting-house.
When a pilot's benzine tank has been perforated, and when the infernal liquid is squirting around his legs, the danger of fire is very great.
One can therefore imagine what it means if a tank containing a large quantity of this devilish liquid explodes a few inches in front of one while the blast from the propeller blows the flame into one's face.
This tank contains the beard-mixture; and this one the gristle.
It is not necessary that the water run through the pond or tank rapidly, but only that a slow change take place.
A solid glass tank or globe is better than a box with glass sides, because it does not leak, but the box must be used if one wants a large aquarium.
The amount required for each tank of spray mixture can be secured approximately from this stock mixture, which should not be allowed to dry out.
The bottom and sides of the tank are pounded firm, and then covered with 3 to 6 in.
In some soils a simple excavation will hold water, but it is usually necessary to give the tank some kind of lining.
Forward they have half a tank full of biscuits, three barrels of salt meat, and a very limited supply of coffee beans and sugar.
The commander of a buttoned-up tank is the master of its fortunes, and what happens for better or worse is according to the strength of his personal control.
The close confinement in which tank forces, airplane crews and submarine crews must operate would stifle morale and torture nerves otherwise.
The whirling tracks of a tank going across some writhing human body and leaving it flat in its tracks, sprawling like an empty coat dyed red.
It was but the head of one worn-out worker used as a living storagetank for excremental food.
Give us the funds and we'll finish the job so that under the central control of The Brain our every plane, every ship, every tankwill roar into action unmanned and fully automatic.
She fell into a deep tank one day when father and I were not at home, and for two days she was struggling at the edge of the water clinging to a bit of brickwork, and no one came to help her.
Ever after this happened, we had to keep a constant watch upon her to prevent her from throwing herself into the tank again.
The brigades are manned with approximately 3,000 men each, and there are probably one tank and five infantry brigades.
As the minutes crept by, the bright dots in the tankmoved closer.
It had thrown the aeroplane almost on end, and in that manner drained a few last driblets of gasolene from the depleted tank into the feed pipes.
And now I'm as famished for lunch as the Golden Butterfly is, so lets fill up the tank and then head for home.
As a cask or tankof fresh water floats easily in the sea, this was not a difficult task, nor were we long in executing it.
Through somebody's negligence the lid of their only water-tank had been left off, with the result that some rats had got in and been drowned.
As each tankwas thoroughly cleansed, a pail of limewash was handed in to me with a big brush, and I gave top, bottom, and sides a liberal coating of it.
For miles behind their front line the country was dotted with pill-boxes, which could defy the tank and all but the largest kinds of shells.
And behind Irles was a derelict British tank which the Germans used as an O.
Also a dummy tank was prepared and hauled forward 200 yards by means of ropes.
No one in the Tank Corps has been able to pull her up under four miles, and only then when she came to a seven-foot hedge.
Bocheland, and had a look at two heavily-camouflaged anti-tank guns that were a feature of the defence in this part of the front.
Fentiman's chief regret was that he would have to leave behind a mare that he had got from the Tank Corps.
Army had established in the neighbourhood; we went within twenty yards of a disabled tank that a land mine had rendered hors de combat; we came across another tanklumbered half-way across a road.
The old tank sheered off and must have got it hot.
She died when only five years old by an accident: when washing her hands in the great tank she fell in, and was drowned.
By this time it is ten o'clock, when she goes with some other women to bathe in the river, or if there be no river near, in a great tank of rain-water.
We got up, washed in an old tank in one corner of the room, wiped our faces on our shirts, and waited for breakfast.
We had no water, but one of the officers had an old two-quart pail, and by coaxing, the guard filled it twice out of the tank of the locomotive.
Next time we cover a fire on an oil tankfarm we'll know enough to stay at a safe distance.
Hundreds of gallons gushed into the tank on the tender and the fireman had just completed his task when they got the highball.
The new paint on the wings and fuselage curled and darkened in the heat and for a second Tim thought the gasolinetank might explode.
Henshaw picked up his torch, lighted it, and dropped down to oil around while Benson pulled the spout down from the nearby water tank and gave the engine a drink.
Smells to me like they had taken some gasoline out of the tank and thrown it over the car," said Ralph.
They were a mile west of the burning tank farm when he banked sharply and swung back toward the city.
Safety trenches had been a part of the protective system at the tank farm, but some of them had been weakened by the explosion and the flaming gasoline was finding the vulnerable spots.
The last time I had seen him was when he stepped out of a gas tank on the 18th floor of an office building in Chicago where I was reclining at the time in a dentist chair.
