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The brick-paved floor of a tunnel through an old factory building in Milton - the bricks are red, but the reflected light of the sky was so blue it overpowered their natural colour. It was a bright sunny day, but cold.
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It's really simple to clean brick, just time consuming and your arms get tired since you are holding a 5 lb brick and hitting it with a hammer to remove the mortar. I finished the whole pile in about 4 hours, now I have enough to complete paving an area behind the garage...and a little extra!!
Top row is D bricks (all ABS except for one black CA). Bottom row is F.
Copied from WoutR's post:
In the 1960's, LEGO was not large enough to produce and control worldwide supply of LEGO brick from their own factory. Because of that, and because of import restrictions in several countries, LEGO was produced in a few different countries.
In the UK the licence was held by the Courtauld's Corp from 1960 to 1992. They produced LEGO in their Wrexam factory and distributed it to Britain, Ireland and Australia.
Around 1960, LEGO was searching for a replacement for the Cellulose Acetate (CA). It was replaced by Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) around 1963. (Replacement was later in the USA, where licence holder Samsonite continued to use it.)
In my personal opinion, it is not surprising that LEGO asked their new licence holder to help them to come up with a replacement for the CA. They were used to working with plastic in their factory, so it makes sense to work together and use their expertise when they start a new production licence agreement that might soon be subjected to such a huge change. At the same time companies like Bayer and BASF also worked on similar projects.
I think the early "Wrexham bricks" in odd plastics come from that period.I am not sure how many molds were used for this. For the Wrexham factory, we know about the F1-F4 bricks and there is also a series with N-numbers.
After the choice for ABS was made, the molds previously used for testing new plastics were used for quality control.
We did not know anything about where Courtaulds/Wrexham got their raw materials or how they organised quality control, but recently (July/August 2014) we found out that the material was supplied by Borg Warner Chemicals in Grangemouth. We also learn that they had their own mold (F1-F4) for quality testing in their "color lab" before the raw ABS was send to LEGO (presumably the Wrexham factory).
In 1977/78 some employees at Borg-Warner wanted to experiment with some of the excess plastic from the regular LEGO production and used the mold to produce bricks with a "granite effect". The bricks they produced were given to children. They did not see this as a problem, because the marbled "granite" bricks could be clearly distinguished from real LEGO products. This might have been done with permission within the factory, or they might have been produced during night shifts, but I think LEGO was not pleased about it. As the story was told on BrickLink, the bricks were eventually spotted by a LEGO representative and the mold was taken away.
“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Wilhelm von Humboldt state school in Nordhausen. This striking red brick building was erected in 1861.
Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (1767-1835) was a Prussian philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin, which was named after him in 1949 (and also after his younger brother, Alexander von Humboldt, a naturalist). He was the architect of the Humboldtian education ideal, which was used from the beginning in Prussia as a model for its system of public education, as well as in the United States and Japan.
17th century brickwork, Schoorl.
While the bricks are original, the mortar is all new as the whole building was moved several meters in the early 20th century.
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Argus C3 - Appropriately nicknamed the "Brick". Made in the USA. Found this one beside the QEW (Jordan Station) "antique" market. Kind of took pity on it as it was in a large plastic tub together with all kinds of other less desirable cameras.
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