What-yer-ma-call-its Galore

"Riiiight. Now if I could have your ATTention palease. The machinery ON your left was used as the ... ah ... principle dooverlacky for the main thingame shaft between 1946 aaand 1955. It operated in CONjunction with the ... er ... heavy duty flange sprocket attached to the .." sniff! ".. number five pulvertable unit, prior to the introduction of monoferticle processing.

Aaany-questions-right-now-moving-on ... over by the laaarge exprusion machine you can clearly see the blah blah blah ......."

While my wife was at the doctor's, I drove on down to the old Lithgow State Coal Mine Museum where there is a gigantic display of rusting machinery, left over from when the original working installation was closed in 1964. These days the place is really a mine of potential photographs for all worshipers of antique engineering such as myself.