The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
THE OPEN HEARTH CHARGING FLOOR AT THE BROKEN HILL PROPRIETY'S NEWCASTLE STEEL WORKS. IN THE FOREGROUND IS AN ELECTRICALLY-OPERATED FURNACE CHARGING MACHINE, AND IN THE BACKGROUND, A LADLE CONTAINING MOLTEN PIG IRON IS SHOWN BEING PLACED IN POSITION FOR POURING INTO A FURNACE.
GIVING ONE OF THE BROKEN HILL PROPRIETARY'S NEWCASTLE STEEL WORKS THIRTEEN OPEN HEARTH FURNACES A "DRINK" OF MOLTEN PIG IRON. THIS OPEN HEARTH FURNACE PLANT SUPPLIES THE BULK OF THE STEEL WHICH AUSTRA
"RIMMING" STEEL SHOWN POURING FROM THE FOOT OF AN 80-TON LADLE INTO INGOT MOULDS AT THE BROKEN HILL PROPRIETARY'S NEWCASTLE STEEL WORKS OPEN HEARTH PLANT. THE OPERATOR AT RIGHT CONTROLS THE FLOW OF TH
SCENE ON THE BLAST FURNACE CASTING FLOOR AT THE BROKEN HILL PROPRIETY'S NEWCASTLE STEEL WORKS AS THE FURNACE MEN WORK ON THE JOB OF PIERCING THE CLAY PLUG WHICH WILL RELEASE A TORRENT OF MOLTEN PIG IR
HERE IS HOWN THE TAPPING SIDE OF THE OPEN HEARTH FURNACE PLANT AT THE BROKEN HILL PROPRIETY'S NEWCASTLE STEEL WORKS. THIS SIDE OF THE FURNACE IS LOWER THAN THE CHARGING SIDE WITH THE RESULT THAT WHEN
AT AN AUSTRALIAN STEEL WORKS, A 100-TON LADLE OF MOLTEN STEEL BEING LIFTED FROM THE OPEN HEARTH FURNACE CASTING SIDE BY OVERHEAD CRANE, OVER TO A LINE OF INGOT MOULDS, ONE OF WHICH CAN BE SEEN IN THE
An open hearth - tapping molten steel into two ladles. To the left can be seen slag running off into a slag ladle at lower level at the Broken Hill (BHP) Steelworks.
