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  1. NEWCASTLE STEEL INDUSTRY 30 YEARS OLD

    TO-DAY, June 2, marks the 30th Anniversary of the opening of the iron and steel works of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd., at Newcastle. The ceremony was performed by the Governor-General of the period, Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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    CHIEF GENERAL MANAGER of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd., Mr. Essington Lewis retired recently from the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 135 words
  3. Steel Works Made Magnesium

    WITH TYPICAL CUNNING, Germany tricked the world before the war by dominating the magnesium market. It sold its ...

    Article : 421 words
  4. Newcastle Was Ready

    When Germany struck in 1939, Newcastle industry was geared for war. The Steel Works and the allied industries were ready, although only their leaders and their metallurgists knew what lay ahead to make them independent of other countries for ...

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  5. A.R.P. WAS EFFICIENT

    Soon after Japan entered the war, complete A.R.P. organisation was set in at all industries. Adequate air-raid shelters were ...

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    MR. K. BUTLER, Manager of the Newcastle Steel Works. Mr. Butler has had a long association with the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. FERRO ALLOY FROM BEACH SAND

    FACED WITH the cutting off from overseas of supplies of ferro alloys—the salt and pepper of steel industry—the B.H.P. early ...

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  8. Prophetic Words at Steel Works Opening

    PROPHESIES expressed at the opening of the Newcastle Steel Works on June 2, 1915, proved remarkable correct. ...

    Article : 160 words
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    A view of the blast furnace section of the Newcastle Steel Works through the spars of a ship at the B.H.P. Wharf. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  10. Young Metallurgists Revealed Krupps' Secret

    Early in the war, a team of young Newcastle metallurgists—their average age was under 22—solved one of the closely guarded secrets of Krupps, of Essen, Germany, and gave to Australia the tungsten carbide tool tip, without which the ...

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  11. Barges, Tugs at Steel Works

    THE B.H.P. CO. LTD, entered upon shipbuilding as a wartime development. At Whyalla it built ...

    Article : 218 words
  12. Demand for Machine Tools Was Met

    GERMANY, with its long-range preparation for war, obligingly sold machine tools to the world in the years before the war ...

    Article : 155 words
  13. Start Was Made In Small Shell Shop

    IN the Second World War the Australian steel industry made thousands of tons of shell steel, and Government munition plants ...

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  14. TRIBUTE TO WORKERS OF STEEL INDUSTRY

    At the invitation of the "Newcastle Morning Herald," the Chief General Manager of The Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. (Mr. Essington Lewis) has given this message— "At this time, notable for Allied victory over Germany ...

    Article : 126 words
  15. New Steel For All-cast Tank

    IN 1940 the Australian Army wanted thousands of armoured fighting vehicles, chiefly of the Bren gun carrier type, armoured ...

    Article : 261 words
  16. IRON ORE RESERVE WAS NEEDED

    ONE MILLION TONS to iron ore was stored at Newcastle and Port Kembla as an insurance against the possible dislocation ...

    Article : 65 words
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