Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- The Building of William Sandford's Lithgow Blast Furnace, 1905-07
- In
- Fourth National Conference on Engineering Heritage 1988: Preprints of Papers
- Imprint
- Institution of Engineers, Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 1988, pp. 109-116
- ISBN/ISSN
- 085825414X
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.624092146535316
- Abstract
When William Sandford decided in October, 1905 to build his blast furnace at Lithgow, he began a race against time in order to meet a deadline set by his contract to supply iron and steel products to NSW Government Departments. He had to make a final selection of a furnace design, engage consultants and specialists from overseas (as there had been no operating blast furnace in Australia since 1882), order and ship the major equipment from overseas and erect and commission the plant within a total time frame of 15 months. This was an extremely tight schedule, even by today's standards with all our modern conveniences. This paper narrates the progress of this most challenging project to its final commissioning.
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