Item 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 north end of number one blast furnace.
Abbass, JohnItem 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 DOSCO blast furnace operations, showing interior of cast house. The large pipe at right is the bustle pipe that fed the blast of hot air from turbo blowers to the furnace. The runners or troughs, foreground, were where slag and molten iron ran off from the furnace; slag to its left, iron to its right.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO blast furnace operations, showing the interior of the cast house while the furnace is in the process of casting. Figures unidentified. Impurities or slag ran off in a runner from the left of the furnace; molten iron in a runner to its right. See also 90-258-19690, 90-254-19686.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO blast furnace operations, showing the number 3 furnace, left, and the bins, with coke cars on the centre track. At right is the brown bridge over what is probably a stockpile of lime. The brown bridge transferred raw materials from the stockpiles to ears for eventual use in the furnace.
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 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 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 the DOSCO blast furnace, showing the exterior of the power house in the area. Stoves of number 7 and 8 blast furnaces are visible at left.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of the DOSCO blast furnace, showing the interior of a boiler room in the department.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of the SYSCO blast furnace, showing a group of employees posed in front of the furnace with a sign reading "No. 3 Blast Furnace, 331,000 tons of Iron, 1968."
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of the blast furnace, showing a group of workers posted in front of the furnace with a sign reading "Iron Production Record - 684,000 Tons, 1968."
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of the SYSCO blast furnace, showing a group of employees posed in front of the furnace with a sign reading "Yearly Record, No. 1 Blast Furnace, 352,000 Tons of Iron."
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of the DOSCO blast furnace, showing one of the drums around which crane cables were wrapped as the crane was lowered or raised. The drums were grooved to prevent the cable from overlapping.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO blast furnace operations showing an unidentified working using a control panel, probably related to the cranes.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO blast furnace operations, showing the steps leading to the top of number 3 furnace. Part of the brown bridge is visible at right.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO blast furnace operations, showing the scale car, where all iron ore, limestone, sinter, mill scale and other materials used in the department were weighed. Dial of the scale is visible at right.
Abbass, JohnItem 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 DOSCO blast furnace operations, showing the conveyor system and new unloading facility that worked with the coke stacker.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO blast furnace operations, showing the gantry crane called the brown bridge that stacked raw materials in the area.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO blast furnace operations, showing the crane that transported raw materials in the area.
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 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 a construction area in the north end of the department.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of a DOSCO blast furnace, showing the stockyard crane about the raw materials intended for use in the blast furnaces. Part of the coal wash plant is visible at right. Number 7. 8, 8, and 3 are in the background.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of the DOSCO blast furnace, showing an aerial view of the department. Electrical building is at centre of photo; rectangular building, off-centre-is boiler house. Two furnaces, number seven and eight are visible in back.
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 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 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 the electric flywheel on the motor that powered the big rolls.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing a rotor or stator newly installed in the motor room. See also 90-340-19772.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing a rotor or stator newly installed in the motor room. Figure in hat tentatively identified as R.R. Moffatt.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing the interior of the main motor room with its electric generator installed.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of the DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing the construction of the extension to the blooming mill in 1957 - an exterior shot.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing construction of the extension to the blooming mill in 1957. The sinter blocks being laid were partially composed of slag foam, an idea conceived by DOSCO engineer Norman Weiner as a way of using the slag from the blast furnace. These blocks were first used in the blooming mill and later in about thirty bungalow style houses around Sydney.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing the soaking pits of the blooming mill. Ingots were "soaked" with heat in these pits until they reached a uniform temperature inside and out.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing an ingot going through the big rolls with manipulator Victor LaTarte looking on. Sign reads "70,000th ton of steel rolled December 16, 1964."
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing the big shears as it outs the rolled ingot into sections to make rails or slabs or whatever is required. In the background is the blooming mill.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO's heavy rolls mills, showing the finishing rolls with the intermediate rolls, right. A rail is emerging from number nine pass, at left, on the finishing roll.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing the stands that supported the rolls in the billet mill. This mill rolled direct, so its products went to the bar mill on the rod mill. See also 90-354-19786.
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 flying shears in the billet mill. At the end of the mill where billets were rolled out, these shears would chop off the crop ends.
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 the north side of the big rolls in the blooming mill with an ingot just about to enter the rolls. Dark patch on top of the glowing ingot is scale, which will be knocked off as it goes through the rolls.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing the big rolls at the north end of the blooming mill.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing a metallurgical observer taking an optical pyrometer reading of the temperature of an ingot as it comes out of the rolls. If the temperature was too low rolling was stopped until it could be raised to prevent defects in the ingot. The screen protects the observer from flying scale, which has been compared to shrapnel coming off the ingot.
Abbass, JohnItem i s a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing the walkway from the big rolls in the blooming mill.
Abbass, JohnItem is a photograph of DOSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing the flying shears at the end of the billet mill. The pieces lying on the ground are scrap, sheared off as the billets came through.
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 operations, showing the flying shears installed in the billet mill in 1965.
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