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From the hill, Hurley looked over the BHP township on the saltbush plain, with the tramway running across the slope in the foreground. A figure in a car at the right is incidental — the History Trust note on the Hurley series says his car was a 1935 Vauxhall — and is not a portrait. The pin is the mining town and its railway.
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-32.7290, 137.1490
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1935
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Iron Knob township and tramway, 1935: BHP Mining History
Iron Knob township and tramway, 1935
1935
Explore the historical BHP mining township of Iron Knob in 1935. View the original tramway and saltbush plains captured by Hurley in this historic image.
From the hill, Hurley looked over the BHP township on the saltbush plain, with the tramway running across the slope in the foreground. A figure in a car at the right is incidental — the History Trust note on the Hurley series says his car was a 1935 Vauxhall — and is not a portrait. The pin is the mining town and its railway.
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