Bendigo factory
 

1950's I think ?

http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/...ctory/#slide=2

Fantastic photos Mike. A sad reminder that this country is rapidly increasing our capacity to make ....nothing.

Yes, 1950s.

The 120mm RCL L2A1 BAT gun was not made in the thousands, of course, and was only ever a training weapon in Australia (ie not the listed weapon for deployment).

Nice collection. The factory is now a Thales manufacturing plant, and is where Bushmasters are assembled.

Mike

amazing photos...glad to hear its still being used ...but I'll bet we don't make stuff like that anymore.

Great photos Mike.

I think they got carried away when they said the overhead crane was 110ft high If you imagine the 44gallon drums stacked on top of each other - more like 40ft.

Lang

My son did work experience at Thales Bendigo a couple of weeks ago and one of his jobs was loading the magazine of a naval gun that was under test... it apparently was very hard work keeping up with the rapid fire gun.... it fired in 5 round bursts. The older workers let him do the actual loading as he was a bit more nimble than they were. :)
He also help build some Bushmasters and went for a drive in another Bushmaster.