Accession Number | P12337.001 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Print silver gelatin |
Maker |
Ministry of Munitions of War |
Place made | Australia: Victoria, Ballarat |
Date made | c 1941 - 1946 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Street view of the Gun Cotton Factory. Collection relating to Robert Craig who lead the design ...
Description
Street view of the Gun Cotton Factory. Collection relating to Robert Craig who lead the design and construction of the No. 4 Explosive Factory, Ballarat.
- 53. 'Electrical control - main switch gear with meters.' Collection relating to Robert Craig who ...
- '3. Finished Scrolls of paper ready for immersion in the acid where they are converted to ...
- '5. General view of the nitrating house, showing the pans of acid in which the rolls of scrolled ...
- '6. Another view of the nitrating house showing the dippers in the distance. These men are ...
- '7. Dippers at work. Scrolls of paer are being pressed under the acid with hood in position to ...
- '8. The nitrated paper being hoisted to the high level vat house'. Collection relating to Robert ...
- '9. General view along one bay of the vat house'. Collection relating to Robert Craig who lead ...
- '10. Method of loading gunpaper into the vats before boiling'. Collection relating to Robert ...
- '11. Beating or pulping the gunpaper to change it into powder form'. Collection relating to ...
- '11. Beating or pulping the gunpaper to change it into powder form'. Collection relating to ...
- '13. Loading the finished gunpaper into bags. Inspectors at work.' Collection relating to Robert ...
- '14. Milten sulphur bath feeding the sulphur burners in the Sulphuric Acid Plant.' Collection ...
- '15. Air drying towers and sulphur dioxide converter column - Sulphuric Acid Plant.' Collection ...
- '16. Gas cooloing legs of converter - Sulphuric Acid Plant.' Collection relating to Robert Craig ...
- '17. Gas cooloing lines - Sulphuric Acid Plant.' Collection relating to Robert Craig who lead ...
- '18. Another view of the gas cooling pipes in the Oleum Plant.' Collection relating to Robert ...
- '19. Sulphuric Acid manufacture - circulating acid tanks. In the left background a view of the ...
- '20. Testing acid strength in Sulphuric Acid Plant at the absorption towers.' Collection ...
- '21. Sulphuric Acid Concentration Plant showing outlets of concentated acid.' Collection ...
- '22. Sulphuric Acid Concentration building - Producer Gas Unit in the foreground.' Collection ...
- '23.'Sulphuric Acid Concentration Plan - fronts of the Bamag Units'. Collection relating to ...
- 24.'Sulphuric Acid Concentration Plan - Dephlegmator and tape of Bamag Pots'. Collection ...
- 25.'Sulphuric Acid Concentration Plan - analysing gases, top of the Bamag Unit'. Collection ...
- 26. 'Sulphuric Acid Concentration Plan - cooling concentrated acid'. Collection relating to ...
- 27. 'Nitric Acid Retort House. Nitrate of soda loading trucks and nitre cake pans'. Collection ...
- 28. 'Nitric Acid Retort House. Nitre cake pans'. Collection relating to Robert Craig who lead ...
- 29. 'Denitration Plant, Absorption towers'. Collection relating to Robert Craig who lead the ...
- 30. 'Nitric Acid Retort House. View along the top of the absorption towers.' Collection relating ...
- 31. 'Nitric Acid Retort House. A second view along the top of the towers.' Collection relating ...
- 32. 'Ammonia Oxidation Unit. Converters in which ammonia is oxidized to nitric acid.' Collection ...
- 35. 'Ammonia Oxidation Plant - Method of circulating nitric acid through stainless steel pumps ...
- 33. 'Ammonia Oxidation Plant. Lighting the catalyst in the converters.' Collection relating to ...
- 34. 'Ammonia Oxidation Plant. Gas Absorption Towers.' Collection relating to Robert Craig who ...
- 36. 'Denitration Plant. Cooling the mixed acid from the Denitration Towers, and showing the ...
- 37. 'Acid mixing and storage Tank Farm - General view (photo is back to front)'. Collection ...
- 38. 'A closer view of the Tank Farm showing fume line and counterpoise dip stick'. Collection ...
- 39. 'Acid storage tanks - high level and love level'. Collection relating to Robert Craig who ...
- 40. 'Loading a rail truck with acid for shipment to an associated factory. Sulphuric acid ...
- 41. 'Another view of loading a rail truck with acid'. Collection relating to Robert Craig who ...
- 42. 'In the laboratory - weighing'. Collection relating to Robert Craig who lead the design and ...
- 43. 'In the laboratory - test gunpaper as to its nitrogen content'. Collection relating to Robert ...
- 46. 'Refrigerator water supply ammonia compressors'. Collection relating to Robert Craig who lead ...
- 47. 'Another view of the ammonia compressors'. Collection relating to Robert Craig who lead the ...
- 48. 'Boiler House - steam raising plant.' Collection relating to Robert Craig who lead the design ...
- 49. 'Casualty. Patient under treatment.' Collection relating to Robert Craig who lead the design ...
- 50. 'In the Workshop. "Acid eggs" being made for another establishment.' Collection relating to ...
- 51. 'In the Workshop. Grinding silicon iron.' Collection relating to Robert Craig who lead the ...
- 52. 'General Store showing a section of shelving units.' Collection relating to Robert Craig who ...