The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
"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 THE MOLTEN STEEL AND HE WEARS DARK GLASSES AS PROTECTION AGAINST THE GLARE.
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
TEEMING OF "RIMMED" STEEL FROM 80-TON LADLES INTO 3 1/2 TON INGOT MOULDS AT THE BROKEN HILL PROPRIETARY'S NEWCASTLE STEEL WORKS.
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
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 M
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
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.
