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Here
you can see fireworks ready to be boxed. All fireworks
must be shipped in special UN cartons. |
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MLE
Flying Eagle Rockets, ready for packing, these will
be packed into sleeves of 5 before going into UN cartons. |
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This
photograph shows 2 process buildings at a large factory
site. This factory makes some of the best display
shells in China. Note the lightning conductors. |
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You
are looking at "stars", these are contained
in nearly every firework and burn in the sky to produce
the effect. |
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How
are "stars" made, you might ask, well they
are rolled in special drums, sometimes they are pressed
into small cylinders. |
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Stars
made in the cylinder style by pressing them in machines. |
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Stars
being put into a "shell", a shell is the
usually considered the most impressive firework in
a display, you associate these with big bursts of
colour in the sky. |
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Shells
are made in 2 halves and then closed together. These
shells are Japanese style and produce some of the
best effects.. |
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A
finished 300mm shell, this device will fire about
300 metres into the sky and burst before burning for
more then 20 seconds. |
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This
is how glass fibre mortar tubes are made, they are
rolled from matting and bound with epoxy resin. Shells
are fired from these types of tubes. |
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Glass
fibre tubes for 200mm, 150mm and 125mm shells. |
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Cakes
- these are perhaps the most popular consumer firework
in England, they fire effects into the sky continuously
for 30 seconds or more. |
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These
are bigger cakes ready for drying, they contain 36
50mm shell type devices. Each one might weigh 25 kilograms. |
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Liuyang,
Hunan, China this is the home town of fireworks, fireworks
were invented there and are produced for companies
worldwide. |
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Outside
of the Firework Trade Centre, the roundabout has this
beautiful metal firework sculpture. |
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Bob,
Mat, Connie and Ricky. |
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Italian
cylinder shells. |
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Roman
candles, these are a trade mark of MLE shows. |
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