Item 32: Tom Ivory interviewed by Richard Raxworthy in the Sydney Harbour Bridge Builders collection, 1982

MLOH 1/10

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1 April 1982

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

1002186

Digitised : Copies on CD at CY MLOH 1/32

1 sound cassette (25 min.)

Tom Ivory speaks of his work as an apprentice boilermaker under Bert Payne in the marking-off bay of the Dorman Long fabrication workshops during the building of the Bridge; how apprentices got across the arch before the Director by climbing up the jibs of the creeper cranes; accidents that occurred at work.

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Log of interview available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -

Digitised from the original sound cassette in 2012