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View of a worker standing in the screen of a tin mining dredge manufactured by Charles Ruwolt Pty Ltd at Richmond, Victoria for the South Taiping Tin Dredging Company in Malaya. This company went into voluntary liquidation in 1935. The dredge has earlier been sold to the Batu Selangor Tin Dredging Co. Whilst the photograph records of Dredgers and Dredger Details records the date of all photographs of dredgers as 8-8-28 the thesis by Geoff David Hayes titled Charles Ruwolt: A History to 1927, dates the dredge as built in 1921.

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