Phelps Dodge / Boston-New Hampshire trolley wire procurement (from chunk 2)

Brief reference within §12.p1; cited as an application of the Conform process. The specific role here is to anchor "Conform produces real industrial product, not just research curio."

Last week when I was down at the Army, they were trying to develop new types of armor, not by rapid solidification, but they have a process the British developed and tried to commercialize 30 years ago, where they really sort of knead the metal. You put 30 times the energy into it, and you squeeze it out an extrusion hole — actually you squeeze it this way and it comes out at 90° — and it's called the Conform process. You can get some incredible properties. I mentioned the trolley wire — the trolley wire they ended up buying from Phelps Dodge for the New Hampshire-Boston connection was made by the Conform process. Fantastic strength and ductility. Remember we talked about that last time.