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6 moving images films
AU NBAC N383-187 · Item · c.1975-c.1978
Part of CSR Limited Pyrmont Refinery deposit

Most or all Super8 film. Four are labelled: 375gm Coffee Packing No 2 Rovema; Preistman's - Grab Film No. 1; 375gm coffee & grab film 2; Cube wrapper, Hessar machine, smoke from char end.

CSR Property Plans
AU NBAC N383-185 · Item · 1977
Part of CSR Limited Pyrmont Refinery deposit

Mills, Refineries, Gypsum Product Factories, Hardboards Australia Ltd, Sales Offices and Factories, Wunderlich Ltd Factories, Pyneboard Pty Ltd Factories (NSW, Vic), Bradford Insulations (NSW, Vic, Qld, WA), CSR Chemicals Factories (NSW, Vic), Distillery (Qld, NSW, Vic), Carba (Vic, NSW, SA, NT, WA, Tas), Research and Development Establishments (NSW, Qld), Macadamia Properties (Qld). 2 copies

Various photographs
AU NBAC N383-158 · Item
Part of CSR Limited Pyrmont Refinery deposit

Includes: No 1 full automatic Watson LAIDLAW, Reined DC Centrifugal & Singer Sewing Machine Motor converted to use as Tacho generator (series of 7 b&w photos); Conference prior to the national launch of CSR Sugar Cubes, 1968; series of b&w of individual employees at Pyrmont Refinery, Refinery Buildings, Wharf, Container Ships (15 photographs, 198?); Japanese delegation to Pyrmont October 1985; Pyrmont Refinery 14 November 1973; ACTU visit to Pyrmont Refinery re workers participation February 1977; Engineering Training Centre Pyrmont Refinery - display by Engineering Cadets 1982; Kerry Dundas & Max Dupain - Men & Machinery Series (6 b&w photos)

Untitled photograph album
AU NBAC N383-129 · Item · 1918 - 1919
Part of CSR Limited Pyrmont Refinery deposit

Subjects include: Pyrmont fire 1918; 20 days after fire; erection commenced 40 days after fire; Pyrmont stables etc. Also includes a letter from Frank Chirgurn to Mr S E Bensom 5/7/65 which appears unrelated.

AU NBAC N383-126 · Item · 1950 - 1969
Part of CSR Limited Pyrmont Refinery deposit

Subjects include: turbo alternator Hesser Packaging machines; aerial views of Pyrmont Refinery 1950, 1963; carbonation control instrument; bulk raw sugar transporter crane; hoist machinery; drier house; hydraulic fugal distributor; packing station area; soft brown sugar packing Pyrmont Refinery; aerial view of Pyrmont Refinery c.1950; Pyrmont wharf (people
identified); Sugar bin for tablet sugar in the tablet house; tablet house (fire); raw sugar store; melt house; refined sugar store; Jones St looking south from refinery main gate; Jones Lane 1 Bowman St; Harvey Street; John Street; New Street; Mccredie St; two views of railway cutting and control lab looking west from Harris Street; John St showing row of old cottages; Mount St; Saunders Lane (various houses recently demolished).

AU NBAC N383-125 · Item · 1944 - 1959
Part of CSR Limited Pyrmont Refinery deposit

Subjects include: construction of boiler station; old boiler station; No. 5 raw sugar store from Elizabeth Bay; end of street; site of new wharf offices; new wharf office and boiler station; long wharf and ash punt; coal storage bin; general view of station from Harris Street and Steamer Yai-Ping-Yang; front brick wall during erection; Pyrmont Refinery from Adolphus Street Balmain 1946; No. 1 boiler station (construction includes people)

AU NBAC N383-124 · Item · 1941 - 1954
Part of CSR Limited Pyrmont Refinery deposit

Subjects include: boiler furnaces; coal wagons (18 tons capacity); 16 ton weighbridge No. 34 store; distillery & bulk handing plant; Harvey Street from centre of site Jan 1941; series of photos of McCredie & Bowman Streets, 1941; series of photos of Jones Street, Harris Street and New Street (G.A Extension Harris Street frontage 1941; centrifugal machines (Pyrmont Refinery); bulk sugar crane 1954; coal crane 1954; coal silos under construction; melting house; conveyor No.2; wharf conveyor; conveying plant for sugar & char; Sullivan scraper hauler; transporter cranes.

AU NBAC N383-123 · Item · 1951 - 1953
Part of CSR Limited Pyrmont Refinery deposit

Subjects includes: Main Wharf; wharves; Mount Street site; air raid shelter 1951; removal of incinerator; coal tunnel and silo; machine house; HP boiler stations (chimney construction); No.4 Amenities Building (old dining room, auditorium); New Auditorium, new dining room, new servery, new canteen etc; new cutting-in station; pier erection; crane; long wharf; weighbridge office & pit; weigh station; weigh house; bulk sugar, ships, cranes, hoppers etc; floating crane; the 'old office' (Harris Street); new offices; first ship of bulk sugar handled by main wharf cranes, SS Bundaleer shown.

AU NBAC N383-116 · Item · c.1985-1988
Part of CSR Limited Pyrmont Refinery deposit

Your Guide to Pyrmont Refinery: Sugar Division, NSW Region, Pyrmont Refinery, January 1984; 'CSR Limited. 130 Years 1855-1985 - the chronology of a diversified company'; Pyrmont refinery - an important part of the Australian sugar industry; CSR News Letter February 1988 no 176; 1 photograph of sugar being packed; 1 proof sheet of photographs taken at Pyrmont Refinery July 1986.