From Matthew Quomi
Hammersley Iron, Dampier, WA
I have been busy asking my father questions and so far I have discovered only the tip of the iceberg, there are so many interesting and amazing stories. I have quickly scanned a few images that my father has to show you a different side of EPT away from the building transmission lines such as building the Ramshead chairlift in Thredbo by hand (cranes were not used to lift those heavy steel lift towers into position) and using a tower crane to lift a mobile cranes 30 metres up into the air!
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Yallourn Power Station, Victoria
Transmission Lines 1955–1974 is a project by Linda Carroli. It documents my father’s working life as a rigger and linesman with the Electric Power Transmission and its Italian parent company. He kept a photographic record of his working life and the photographs featured in this map are his personal photographs from Australia and Italy in the period 1955 to 1974. He commenced work in Italy in 1954 and remained working with EPT until 1975.
View Transmission Lines 1955 to 1974 in a larger map.
05 January 2012
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