Screening Conveyor Type:Acrylic 000 people

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euchre competitions

freshwater pumps and hot water boiler spanning the frame

replacing the open hearth furnaces that had run since 1931

Part of the O-I Glass series

Screening Conveyor Type:Acrylic 000 peopleA screening conveyor sits rusting within Hornsby Quarry, its metal frame the colour of old blood. This machinery was part of the crusher plant that processed dolerite across the operational years of the site, supplying blue metal aggregate for road construction across northern Sydney. Quarrying at Hornsby ran from around 1905 until 2002, under a succession of operators including Farley and Lewers and CSR Construction Materials. Part of the Hornsby