Slate's grand vision of building ever-bigger airships, capable of transporting 800 to 1,200 passengers, ended with the destruction of the "City of Glendale". The hull was sold for scrap and sections of the hangar became hay barns in Arizona.
It's interesting to note that some of the lines to be ripped up & sold for scrap are competitors of the Penn Central.
The ship wound up in Philadelphia and, thanks to the efforts of private citizens, was never sold for scrap with the rest of the fleet.
One of the barges was sold for scrap this summer, the other has been moved out of San Francisco Bay to Stockton, without a permit to remain in the Bay.
BAA confiscates 6m items annually, most of which are sold for scrap.
The site's most recent owner stripped the factory of wiring to sell for scrap and walked away, the mayor said, leaving empty brick buildings behind.
While some of it was sold for scrap, "still others could have been taken intact to preserve their function," reinforcing conclusions of the Iraqi government and the I.A.E.A.
Agamemnon was replaced by at the end of 1926 and sold for scrap in January 1927, the last pre-dreadnought in service with the Royal Navy.
Marsalas career was cut short in November 1927 when she was stricken from the naval register and sold for scrap, the result of her unreliable engines and drastic cuts to the naval budget.
Its chic, streamlined insides were gutted and sold for scrap, and the future of its rusted hull remains very much in doubt.
A kilogram of steel can be sold to scrap collectors for as little as 2,000 kip (16p) – a tiny amount but a tempting earner in areas with few other options for making a living.
