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How To Make A Brick
- Mechanical navvies cut the Oxford Clay from deep pits.
- The lumps of clay are placed in crushing machines where it’s reduced to small clumps.
- Conveyor belts move the clay from the pits to the main works.
- The clay is further crushed and processed to remove impurities until it resembles a damp powder.
- The clay powder is mixed and tested to ensure its uniformity.
- Any special finishes or dies are added as required.
- Finally it’s placed in brickmoulds and double pressed to form an unfired brick, known as a “green brick”.
- The bricks are taken by further conveyor belts through the pressing sheds to be stacked by hand.
- The stacks are moved by forklift trucks into the kiln where they are fired for eleven days by a process called the Hoffmann principle.
- The fired bricks are removed by forklift trucks to stacking sheds where they are checked and strapped ready for sale.
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Another northern view of Press Shed with the brick building to its east. © Simon Cornwell 2009
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