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[citation needed] TAFE is also a significant shareholder in AGCO Corporation, USA – an $12.7 billion US tractor and agricultural equipment manufacturer. TAFE has a distribution network of over 1600 dealers which sells its tractors under four brands – Massey Ferguson, TAFE Tractors, Eicher Tractors and IMT. TAFE exports tractors, and ...
The BHP Whyalla Tramway is a 1067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge heavy-haul railway, 112 kilometres (70 miles) long, on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.It runs from haematite mines at Iron Monarch, Iron Baron and Iron Duke in the Middleback Range, about 50 kilometres (31 miles) west of Whyalla, to company steelworks at the coastal city of Whyalla.
In 1956, the first of four larger Electro-Motive Diesel G12 locomotives was delivered from Clyde Engineering for use on the narrow gauge BHP Whyalla Tramway, a fifth was delivered in June 1961. [ 1 ] Following the construction of the 39.5 kilometre Coffin Bay Tramway standard gauge line between Proper Bay and Coffin Bay on the Eyre Peninsula ...
The Whyalla Steelworks draws the majority of its required water from the Murray River, via the Morgan-Whyalla pipeline. In December 2011, a reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant was commissioned. Capable of producing 1.5 GL of water per year, the plant allows Arrium to reduce Murray River water consumption by up to 25%. [23]
Number Serial Number Into Service Withdrawn Scrapped DH1: 573: Apr 1962 – 2004 DH2: 574: Apr 1962 – Feb 1994 DH3: 575: May 1962 – Oct 1997 DH4: 579: Aug 1965 – Sep 1997
Whyalla / w aɪ ˈ æ l ə / is a city in South Australia.It was founded as "Hummocks Hill", and was known by that name until 1916. [5] [6] It is the fourth most populous city in the Australian state of South Australia after Adelaide, Mount Gambier and Gawler and along with Port Pirie and Port Augusta is one of the three towns to make up the Iron Triangle.
Whyalla Norrie is a suburb of Whyalla on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia. It was gazetted as a distinct suburb in 1967, and had its boundaries altered in 1975 and 2000. It is bounded by Iron Knob Road, Norrie Avenue, Broadbent Terrace and MacDouall Stuart Avenue. It is part of the City of Whyalla. [1]
Whyalla Barson is a suburb in South Australia located on the northern side of the city of Whyalla in the north east corner of Eyre Peninsula. It is named after Thomas Leonard Barson, superintendent of BHP in Whyalla from 1933 to 1938. [3] [8] [9] The suburb was first established in 2011 with revisions to boundaries occurring both in 2013 and 2014.