Photograph - Deer Park Engineering 800 Ballarat Road Deer Park 1972 Photograph, 3rd July 1972

5344.04 - Deer Park Engineering 800 Ballarat Road Deer Park 1972 Photograph

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Historical information

Deer Park Engineering Pty Ltd was a heavy‑engineering firm located at 800 Ballarat Road, Deer Park, Victoria. The company specialised in heavy engineering and fabrication, for example cranes for the Melbourne Docks.

The company was founded by John Ure in 1942, as a heavy engineering and machinery manufacturing company.

Significance

These photographs capture the size of some the company's heavy engineering projects. In this case, this beam was part of Melbourne Port Swanson Dock No 2 Container Crane.

The Melbourne’s No. 2 Container Crane is one of the early ship‑to‑shore (STS) container cranes installed at Swanson Dock in the early 1970s, shortly after the port opened for containerisation in 1969–1970.

These cranes were among the first in Australia and were essential to the launch of container shipping in Melbourne.

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Identifier

5344

Date made

3rd July 1972

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