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Experiments with metal shafts went via several phases. In 1924 the Union Hardware Firm of Torrington, Connecticut, U.S., drew a seamless shaft of substantial-carbon steel which could be heat-handled and tempered. It was authorised because of the R&A in 1929 and considerably replaced hickory during the early 1930s. While in the 1960s aluminum shafts