Road cutting, Heifer Creek, November 1955
Bain, Jack (1955) Road cutting, Heifer Creek, November 1955. [Image]
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Abstract
Drive through the Thiess brothers’ spectacular first major earthworks job, carving out a huge section of stone for road access. The cutting is 104 foot deep and a remarkable sight knowing that it was carved without the aid of modern day machinery. Thiess Brothers from Drayton employed 40 men on the project which took 6 months to complete using a Caterpillar D8.Originally designed to be a tunnel through sandstone, the brothers argued that a cut would be much more economical and convinced the powers that be by submitting price of £4000 less than the tunnel price, this won the day. Address: 2536 Gatton Clifton Rd, Fordsdale
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| Item Type: | Image | ||||||||
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| Source Media: | 35 mm slide | ||||||||
| Collection: | Bain/O'Gorman | ||||||||
| Sub-Collection Title: | Australia - Queensland - Lockyer Valley Region |
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| Date: | November 1955 | ||||||||
| Keywords: | Heifer Creek Road Cutting; Lockyer Valley Region - Queensland | ||||||||
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| Date Deposited: | 21 Mar 2022 01:35 | ||||||||
| Last Modified: | 10 May 2022 06:55 | ||||||||
| Copyright Owner: | Queensland University of Technology | ||||||||
| Copyright Statement: | You are free to use this image without permission. Please attribute Queensland University of Technology | ||||||||
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| Location | -27.75, 152.09 | ||||||||
| URI: | https://digitalcollections.qut.edu.au/id/eprint/6629 | ||||||||
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