all-welded

English

Etymology

From all- +‎ welded.

Adjective

all-welded (not comparable)

1. Constructed with only welded joints, without bolts or rivets being used.
   • 1950 October, “Completion of Flood-Damage Repairs, East Coast Main Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 708:

     The two new steel girders to carry this track—which are of all-welded construction, and with diaphragms fixed in position weighed in all 26 tons—were next brought forward and placed in position.

   • 1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 160, 163:

     In accordance with S.R. practice since the days of Bulleid, the design of components employs welding extensively - in fact the smokebox, motion and slide bar brackets and frame stretchers are all-welded structures.
     [p163] The most ambitious of these items were undoubtedly the all-welded boilers for the short-lived and much-discussed "Leader" 0-6-6-0s; [...]