AN ANGULAR STEEL BASE PLATE FOR A 3.7INCH ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN BEING TURNED ON A HUGE FACE PLATE AT ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Port Kembla
Accession Number 012662
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Bottomley, Clifford
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Port Kembla
Date made 23 June 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

AN ANGULAR STEEL BASE PLATE FOR A 3.7INCH ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN BEING TURNED ON A HUGE FACE PLATE AT THE KEMBLA STEEL WORKS, N.S.W. THE BASE PLATE REVOLVES PAST THE CUTTING TOOL AT A RATE OF 44 REVOLUTIONS A MINUTE.