Ein Blick auf riesige Maschinen, mit denen Kohle und Koks in der Port Talbot Steelworks transportiert wurden, einem integrierten Stahlwerk in Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, Großbritannien, um 1970. Der ständige Bedarf an massiven Brennstoffen für die Öfen bedeutete, dass in den Werken riesige Teile von Förderbandausrüstung benötigt wurden – ein Foto aus den 1960er/70er Jahren.
4252 x 2866 px | 36 x 24,3 cm | 14,2 x 9,6 inches | 300dpi
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Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK
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A view of massive machines used to move coal and coke at the Port Talbot Steelworks, an integrated steel production plant in Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK c. 1970. The constant need for massive amounts of fuel for the furnaces meant huge pieces of conveyor-belt equipment were required at the works. The site at Margam is made up of a number of plants across a large site, developed since 1901. The original works were built by Gilbertson (1901–5) situated south of Port Talbot railway station. This part of the site was demolished in the early 1960s. The original Margam Iron and Steel Works was built 1923–1926. Several manufacturers pooled their resources to form the Steel Company of Wales and constructed the integrated Abbey Works plant that opened in the early 1950s. At the time of peak employment in the 1960s, this was Europe's largest steelworks with a workforce of 18, 000. The Steel Company of Wales was nationalised in 1967 and absorbed into British Steel Corporation, which was later privatised and merged to form Corus Group. Tata Group purchased Corus in 2007. In 2010 Corus was renamed Tata Steel Europe, then Tata Steel Strip Products UK Port Talbot Works. The plants produce millions of tonnes of hot and cold rolled annealed steel coils. This image is from a vintage black and white negative taken by a photographer interested in industrial South Wales. It will look slightly soft if used at too large a size – a vintage 1960s/70s photograph.
