Australia Gets Huge Forging Press
(11.30 a.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. Australia has obtained from Germany as part of 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 orginally used in Dusseldorf for the manufacture of neavy naval guns. ■ i_i j
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Northern Advocate, 5 September 1947, Page 3
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