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LARGE FORGING PRESS PART OF REPARATIONS CANBERRA. Sept. 5. Australia has obtained from Germany as part of the war reparations one of the three largest forging presses in the world. It will be installed in the Newcastle steelworks, where it will forge ships’ crankshafts, high pressure boilers, large guns, 130-ton ingots and other huge pieces of metal. Parts of the press, which comprises 14 pieces, including five each weighing 110 tons, have already arrived in Australia, It was originally used in Dusseldorf for the manufacture of heavy naval guns.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22427, 6 September 1947, Page 5
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