Item is a photograph of the coke ovens, showing the interior of the coal wash and blending plant built in the 1960's.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of the coke ovens, showing the interior of the new coal wash plant built in the 1960's.
Item is a photograph of the DOSCO docks, showing a good overview of the docks area with the rest of the plant, including blast furnace and open hearth departments, beyond. At left is part of the coal pier, the low or number one pier, centre, and the high or number two pier, right. The raw materials for making steel were brought in at the high pier, while finished steel products were shipped out from the low pier.
Item is a photograph of DOSCO blast furnace operations, showing the conveyor system and new unloading facility that worked with the coke stacker.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of students from Xavier College taking part in the March of Concern, protesting the proposed Sydney Steel Plant closure in 1967. The plant was eventually taken over and operated by the Province of Nova Scotia as the Sydney Steel Company (SYSCO) until its closure in 2001.
Raytel PhotographyItem is a photograph of participants from the March of Concern standing outside the gates of the Sydney Steel Plant.
Doucette, RaymondItem is a photograph of the DOSCO docks, showing the shoreline with the stoves of the blast furnace visible at right. The harbour is probably being dredged here, to allow larger ships to come in.
Item is a photograph of the DOSCO docks, showing the crane that unloaded ore and the conveyor system, left, that transported it to the blast furnace stockyard.
Item is a photograph of the DOSCO docks, showing the pier where ore was unloaded for use in the blast furnace, centre. Above it are the number two or "high" pier and one or "low" pier.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO blast furnace operations, showing the A.I.S.I. Technical Committee on Blast Furnace Practise, June 5, 1966, in front of the department. Individuals unidentified.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO blast furnace operations, showing the conveyor system that transported raw materials from the docks for eventual use in the furnace. Behind the stockpiles the two furnaces are visible in the distance.
Item is a photograph of DOSCO blast furnace operations, showing the two brown bridges that moved the raw materials from the stockpile for eventual use in the furnace. Note the conveyor system beneath the bridges, which transported stock from the docks.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of a DOSCO blast furnace, showing a construction area in the north end of the department.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of the DOSCO blast furnace, showing the raw materials and stockyard crane with numbers one and three furnaces, centre. Number seven furnace is visible at left, and docks are in the background. Coal wash building can be seen bottom right.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of the DOSCO blast furnace, showing a view of numbers one and three furnaces from the harbour. Large square building, off-centre, was the boiler house. Furnaces numbers seven and eight are at right.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of the DOSCO docks, showing a general view of the area, with the high or number two pier and the low or number one pier behind it. Finished steel products were shipped out from the low pier while raw materials were brought in at the high pier.
Item is a photograph of the DOSCO docks, showing two of the three coal shipping piers at right, number on pier from where finished steel products were shipped, centre, and the number two pier where raw materials for steel making were brought in. Blast furnace department including its stockyard are in foreground.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of the DOSCO docks, showing the new rails loading crane. The derrick boom (section raised in the air) loaded rails into the holds of ships.
Item is a photograph of the DOSCO docks, showing a boat moored at the new pier with the old piers in the distance. To the right of the boat is part of the conveyor system that transported raw materials from the docks to the blast furnace department.
Item is a photograph of DOSCO blast furnace operations, showing the north end of the number one furnace; a slightly different angle than the one in 90-272-19704.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of the DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing construction taking place in the main motor room at the billet mill. This is the new flying shears installed in 1965.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing 2 workers scarfing defects in blooms. Scarfing consists of using a torch-like oxygen device to burn scale and surface defects from blooms. An inspector marks imperfections to be eradicated by the scarfer.
Item is a photograph of DOSCO coke ovens, showing the demolition of the old coal wash plant near the blast furnace. This was not completely demolished and part of it still remains in the 1990s.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO blast furnace operations, showing the north end of number one blast furnace.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing a mound of tie plates in the tie plate mill. Tie plates are the metal pieces placed under a rail when it's laid on a wooden tie.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills, showing stripped ingots on rail cars en route to the blooming mill. These ingots weight about 7 tons each and are composed of a low, ten or twelve carbon steel.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills, showing the new flying shears being fitted in the billet mill, 1965.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO coke ovens, showing the old coal wash plant in the early stages of its demolition in the 1960s.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO blast furnace operations, showing the skip hoist leading to the furnace, left, with the bins, centre, and brown bridge above it. Stockpiles of raw materials for the furnace are at right. A grab on the brown bridge moved raw materials from the stockpiles into a transfer car. This dumped the material into the bins from where it was loaded into "skip buckets," moving up a skip hoist for eventual use in the furnace. Materials included coke, iron ore, and limestone.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of the DOSCO blast furnace, showing a group of employees of the department in helmets, and two railway workers, back now, in soft caps.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing the flying shears installed in the billet mill in 1965.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing an unidentified inspector gauging a tie plate to determine if the holes are correctly spaced. Different sections have various spacings for their spike holes.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing the tie plate mill, with workers pushing a solid piece of steel through a machine that stamped plated out. This required tremendous manual labour on the part of the employees.
Item is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing an ingot being taken out of the soaking pit in the blooming mill.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of the DOSCO dock operations, showing a boat, "Ontario Power." It was a bulk carrier chartered by DOSCO for many years.
Item is a photograph of DOSCO dock operations showing a section of the conveyor system that moved raw materials from the docks to the blast furnace.
Item is a photograph of a DOSCO blast furnace, showing the stock yard crane and pile of raw materials with the stoves of the furnace visible in the background.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of a DOSCO blast furnace, showing the cranes, called "brown bridges," over stockpiles of raw materials for use in the furnace. Foundation under construction is unidentified.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing the installation of the new flying shears in the billet mill in 1965.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills, showing the new flying shears being fitted in the billet mill in 1965.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO blast furnace operations, showing employees in the process of cleaning the tape hold with an oxygen lance. From the left: Eric Rassmussin, Eric Wiseman, unidentified, Albert Leroy, last two unidentified.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing the stands that supported the rolls in the stands that supported the rolls in the billet mill, with a section going through and being rolled into billets. See also 90-351-19783.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing an unidentified inspector in the billet mill stamping a heat number on inch and three quarter space billets, thirty feet in length.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of heavy rolls mills operations, showing a bloom coming through the main rolls at the blooming mill, heading south toward the big shears where it will be cropped before it goes to the rail mill.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO coke ovens operations, showing the piping and works inside the tar pumphouse, which was associated with the by-products building where tar, crude oil, and sulphate of ammonia were produced.
Abbass, JohnItems is a photograph of the coke ovens, showing the interior of the conveyor system where coal is being moved by belt line to the top of the coal pocket; A close-up shot of the interior of the system. Note that rollers beneath belt are visible on either side.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of the DOSCO docks, showing a ship moored at the coal pier.
Item is a photograph of the DOSCO docks, showing the coal pier, where a ship is being loaded with coal by a boom at left. The high and low steel piers are in the background.
Item is a photograph of DOSCO blast furnace operations, showing an employee using an oxygen lance to clean the tap hole of the furnace. From the left: Henry Fagen, Eric Rassmussin (holding lance), unidentified, Pius Corbett, Eric Wiseman, unidentified, Albert Leroy.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing the big shears about the cut a bloom in the blooming mill as it makes its way to the billet mill.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing the blooming mill pulpit. Manipulator, left, is Frank Irden, with roller George Wainwright, right. The roller rolls the bloom down to section size; the manipulator operates the equipment that turns the bloom.
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