Author Topic: Photographs of E.L.M.Aust. lamp Plant 76 Clude St Hamilton N.S.W.  (Read 1207 times)
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Photographs of E.L.M.Aust. lamp Plant 76 Clude St Hamilton N.S.W. « on: September 25, 2012, 09:51:46 PM » Author: Globe Collector
   Blake, (Brisluminous), just sent me a link to the University of Newcastle (Australia), where a number of photographs of the (now defunct) E.L.M.A. plant can be viewed. Lots of the pictures are of visiting dignitaries and a not particularly interesting, but the ones of the 1989 earthquake damage to the plant are interesting.
    Newcastle, the city north of Sydney where the suburb of Hamilton is located is a coal mining, and steel smelting industrial city, or at least it was then. Old mine tunnels perforate the ground beneath the city and in 1989 there was a magnitude 5.5 (Richter) earthquake, persumably because of the mining and underground colapses because Australia is far from any tectonic plate boundary.
   A returned srevicemen's club collapsed killing a few 10s of people and this was the most concentrated loss of life in this event, but the lamp plant, about 5Km away to the south west was damaged too.....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/sets/72157631089369454/

   I also have another link, that of Tim Newbury, a chap who worked at G.E.S.'s Wembley lamp plant in London as an electrical apprentice. He has documented the destruction of that plant on this web site...

http://www.berytek.btinternet.co.uk/old/osrams/index.htm
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