The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The loading jetty at BHP limestone quarries, Rapid Bay, SA showing conveyor belts, crushing plant and at the top of the hill of the quarries.
Men using pneumatic drills on the quary face at B.H.P. limestone quarries at Rapid Bay, South Australia. Work was commenced on this site in 1941 and the site provided limestone flux for the blast fur
This scene depicts ore from Iron Monarch, as seen in the distance, being loaded form a train out on to a jetty for loading on to a freighter. The view is taken from the jetty looking back to the shor
Showing two Fairmile submarine chasers tied up at the Royal Australian Naval Jetty at Jervis Bay. To the right and in the distance is HMAS Achilles of the Battle of the River Plate fame. Two air-sea r
By means of conveyor belts the iron ore is taken from the bins, weighed and dropped into the ship's hole and then taken to Newcastle and Port Kembla.
Iron ore is pictured being loaded on to a ship at Whyalla, South Australia. Iron ore travelled by conveyor belt at the rate of 1000 tons per hour and was poured into a ship at the end of the jetty.
Depticts the loading of a Liberty ship at Langemak Bay, Finschhafen, New Guinea. Surrounded by green sea and lush green vegetation the ship is being loaded and unloaded by trucks while docked at a rec