Description of Content

View of a Vickers Ruwolt designed 100 tone Hydraulic Platten Press in Vickers Ruwolt Fitting Shop for Explastics Insulations showing one workman along side the machine, January 1959.

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  • Collection Names

    Vickers Ruwolt Collection

  • Collecting Areas

    Engineering

  • Acquisition Information

    Donation from Vickers Ruwolt Pty Ltd, circa 1986

  • Date Made

    1959

  • Format

    Photograph, glass base, Glass Negative, Whole Plate, Black & White

  • Inscriptions

    Circular stamp at bottom-right of negative: VICKERS RUWOLT PTY LTD MELBOURNE PHOTO 1252 Entered in hand written catalogue as: '1252 | 100 ton Hydraulic Platten Press | EXplastics Insulations." Entered in hand written subject index under "HYDRAULIC PRESSES" as | 1252 | 1.1.59 | 100 Ton Hydraulic Platten Press. | Explastics Insulations. | C3616 | 2 Negs."

  • Classification

    Manufacturing & industry, Engineering products, Hydraulic presses

  • Category

    History & Technology

  • Discipline

    Technology

  • Type of item

    Image