Machine Shop meters and LARC amphibious vehicles

and LARC amphibious vehicles

Coal production ran from 1930 until December 1962

built by BHP Collieries to supply coal to the Newcastle steelworks

a grimy window casting flat light across the room

the Victorian sandstone pavilion block designed by Colonial Architect James Barnet and completed in 1885

Machine Shop meters and LARC amphibious vehiclesA tool rack on the wall of the machine shop at Elrington Colliery, Abernethy. The shop sat within the main workshop building alongside the electrical workshop and compressor room, the whole space served by a 15 tonne overhead electric crane running its full length. BHP Collieries built this infrastructure to keep a mine designed for 3,000 tonnes a day running. Part of the Elrington Colliery series.