Item 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 SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing an ingot being lowered by crane into a soaking pit in the blooming mill. Ingots were "soaked" with heat in the pits until they reached a uniform temperature inside and out.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing an ingot being removed by crane from a soaking pit in the blooming mill. It will be transported by buggy to the roll line, centre, operated by the two men in the pulpit, above.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing a worker making a visual inspection of an ingot being removed by crane from a soaking pit in the blooming mill. From there, the ingot is taken by buggy to the blooming mill rolls.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing workings removing scale and irregularities from blooms, a process called "scarfing." Billets are stockpiled in the background in the old stockyard.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing tie plate being rolled in the rail mill; individuals above the rolls are probably a guide setter and a roller.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing a recorder noting heat numbers and types of rails piled in the finishing mill.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing rails being inspected in the rail finishing mill. Worker with the bar would wrench the rails so the inspector could measure the drill holes to ensure they're accurately spaced.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing workers scarfing ingots, removing scale and irregularities, in the scarfing yard on the west side of the blooming mills rolls. Ingots here are probably axle, bound for Trenton, N.S..
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing workers wrenching rails in the finishing mill. Worker with drill is probably knocking burrs off rail. Note that none of the workers are wearing safety equipment.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing two workers stockpiling billets by crane in the small billet yard.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing a hot ingot being moved from the soaking pit by crane to a buggy in the blooming mill. The buggy will take the ingot on to the blooming mill rolls.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of the SYSCO heavy rolls mill, showing an ingot being removed from a soaking pit by crane, where it has been "soaked" with heat until a uniformed temperature is reached inside and out. Beyond, the other pits in the blooming mill are visible.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing a worker scarfing an ingot. Scarfing was a process for removing burrs and irregularities or fixing cracks on the surface of a bloom using a torch.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing and unidentified worker watching as a bloom goes through the blooming mill rolls in a shower of sparks.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing tie plate being rolled in the rail mill. Negative has been reversed in this photo.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing a bloom coming out of number ten pass on the north side of the rail mill. At left is the roughing table with "grasshopper" gears, which were replaced by hydraulic cables in 1973.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing a worker stamping heat numbers on billets by hand. The billets are on the billet mill hot bed.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing workers stockpiling billets in the small billet yard.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing two workers stockpiling billets with the aid of an overhead crane in the small billet yard.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing a worker about to unstrap a sling of billets from an overhead crane which is stockpiling products in the small billet yard. Note heat numbers on the ends of the blooms, foreground.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing a worker making a visual inspection of the blooming mill shears. At the very bottom of photo, a bloom is visible coming from the shears.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills operations, showing a temporary suspension in production as workers try to fix the roll line which is jammed by a bloom. In the very centre of photo are blooming mill shears, and in foreground a stockpile of "four by fours."
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing an ingot in close-up that has just been removed from the soaking pit in a blooming mill. In the centre of the ingot, scale formed during the heating process has broken off.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing a close-up of a hot ingot being removed from a soaking pit in the blooming mill by crane. Ingots were "soaked" with heat in the pits until they reached a uniform temperature inside and out.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing an ingot being removed by crane from a soaking pit in the blooming mill. Ingots were "soaked" with heat in the pits until they reached a uniform temperature inside and out.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing an overhead crane stockpiling billets in the small billet yard. The workers would unstrap the slings of billets from the crane.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing billets being stockpiled by overhead crane in the small billet yard. They will be checked by an inspector and long billets will be torch cut to the requisite length,
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of SYSCO heavy rolls mills, showing a bloom going through the final stages of the rolling process at the blooming mill. Gauges above rolls indicate pressure and dimensions of rolled bloom.
Nova Scotia Information ServiceItem is a photograph of H.J. Kelley, the general manager of Dominion Iron and Steel Company.
Item is a photograph of coke being pushed from ovens at the DISCO plant in Sydney, Cape Breton.
Item is a photograph of the Labor (Steel) Union #1064.
Item 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 a march of concern.
Item 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 Steel Co. cars, coal piers, buckle, loaders, Coal Co. cars and four vessels loading at the coal piers. The private houses were then being used as offices.
Item is photograph of the Royal Canadian Dragoons at Sydney Steel Plant.
Item is a report written by Mitchell Jabalee for HIST3104.
Item is a photograph of the following individuals seated at a table: Clifford Murray (Works Manager DOSCO), Martin Merner, Joe Legge (Asst. Safety Superintendent DOSCO) and an unknown man. The occasion was, possibly, a panel discussion on industrial safety.
Item is a photograph of dignitaries from Montreal at the Sydney Railway Station meeting officials from the Dominion Iron and Steel Company.
Items are two coloured postcards depicting the Blast Furnace of the Sydney Steel Plant.
Item is a photograph of the site where the Sydney steel plant was eventually located. The photograph was taken from the roof of the court house in Victoria Park. On left is the original building that held the marine hospital. The Pond is the "Kentuck" Pond referred to by W.M. MacLeod in his booklet.
Item is a photograph depicting the shipping piers of the allied companies in Sydney harbour.
Item is a photograph of the Sydney Steel Plant shortly after it was built.
Item is a photograph of the Steel Union 1064 Executive Officers.
Back row: Martin Merner, E.P. Pledge, Charles Wall, and Bill Mackinnon.
Front row: Clarence MacInnis, Dan MacKay, Ben O'Neil (president), James Nicholson (Director District 5).
Item is a photograph of the Local 1064 Executive Officers.
Back row: Donald Steele, William Reid, Lawrence MacIsaac.
Front row: Charles Wall, Martin Merner, Dan MacKay, Clarance MacInnes.
Item is a photograph of the Steel Union Executive Officers 1064.
Back row: Walter Codiac, Ben O'Neil, E.P. Pledge, Martin Merner.
Front row: James Nicholson (#5 Dist. Director), M.E. Corbett (President), Dan MacKay (Vice President).
Item is a photograph of Steel Union Executive Officers, Local 1064. The occasion is unknown.
From left to right: Jack Coleman, Charles Crowe, George MacNeil, Art MacGillivray, Martin Merner.
Item is a photograph of the Steelworkers of America Local 1064 float in the Sydney Centennial Celebrations.
Item is a panoramic photograph of Sydney taken from Hardwood Hill.
Dodge, H. O.Item is "Sydney Steel Module" by Kassandra Jabalee and Hannah Fournier, compiled for History 3105.