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When: 14 May 1979
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Is this the forerunner of the 40 foot container that is so ubiquitous today? This giant cage protecting the new item of equipment for the “GPE” factory in Donegal must have been quite the marvel in 1979. Taken when industries were opening in rural Ireland, whereas they all appear to be closing down today, sadly!
Photographers: Denis Tynan 1923 - 2010
Collection: Tynan Photographic Collection
Date: 14 May 1979
NLI Ref: NPA TYN209
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Photographers: Denis Tynan 1923 - 2010
Collection: Tynan Photographic Collection
Date: 14 May 1979
NLI Ref: NPA TYN209
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This was made at GPE, and its being delivered to the customer.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Streetview - goo.gl/maps/mzqMVJ5LrfvkoAgL6 Someone has swiped the three stones. Edit - two stones and a cardboard box
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
What are the "tigers"? Seems they are rusting out the back - goo.gl/maps/pcBFvyC7usH7AvEW6
sharon.corbet
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Looks like a distillation column to me. (May also be an absorber.) It will be later stood on its end (the end facing us goes downward) and used to make food or chemicals.
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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet] - Scrubbers! "GPE has completed contracts in the value range between a few hundred to several million euro. Included among its many contracts in Ireland are the supply of multi-kilometres of extract ducting and process piping; shop supply of complete 4m diameter tanks; site assembly of 5m diameter tanks; complete in situ fabrication of up to 3m diameter tanks in restricted access process areas; rectangular and circular sumps, scrubbers and columns. Export contracts to end users in Austria, Britain, Germany and Poland include process pressure piping; a 30 tonne multi stage ionised wet scrubber and a 8 tonne three stage odour abatement cross flow scrubber." From - www.gpeindustries.ie/AboutUs.htm
suckindeesel
GPE Industries Limited (Gaeltara Plastics Engineering) are still there in Anagry, gpeindustries.ie Won't go rusty as made of GRP. Must be a regular item if still made after all these years. Possibly fume extraction/ventilation duct, they can make em up to 3-metres diameter.
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14 May 1979 was a Monday . . .
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Hilarious photos from the same day of The GPE Boss (?) in a new suit with photos of the Tiger on his desk - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000734108/HierarchyTree catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000734111/HierarchyTree
Niall McAuley
Reg LZO 336 - the earlist family car I remember was JZO 340 in the early 70s. (Have to think hard to remember my current reg!)
sharon.corbet
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia The drawings are on the desk too, so that I can make out that it is for a potash company. (Possibly Arab Potash Company / Jacobs)
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet Well done you! I hoped it might be a new wine barrel for Heidelberg.
Niall McAuley
Arab Potash at wikipedia. Jacobs is probably the Engineering group rather then the Kimberly, Mikado and Coconut Creme gang.
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] Yeah, Jacobs got the contract to build a potash plant in Jordan in 1977.
abandoned railways
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Is that an AEC lorry. edit - Its a Leyland Beaver (CIE Road Freight Department)
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/abandonedrailsireland I think it might say Mercury under the right corner of the windscreen which was an AEC model name.
abandoned railways
Flickr is amazing www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/5442691218/
Niall McAuley
Ah, it says Beaver then? The central logo is a better match for Leyland all right. Beaver more clearly readable in NPA TYN206 I also see the same sign in the corner of the windscreen - UNAUTHORISED PASSENGERS PROHIBITED AND NOT INSURED
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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] This lady didn't see the sign - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000734122/HierarchyTree
sharon.corbet
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia I'm not actually sure, on looking again, whether the drawings have anything to do with the "tiger". From the title box, it looks like that they are only for a quotation. If they were following proper procedures, the drawing should not only have a date in the "as built" box, but there should be a checker and an approver filled in.
suckindeesel
The 1979 date ties in with the construction by AP of their plant in Jordan, where potash was extracted from the Dead Sea. To quote their website history: '1979 Construction work started on the project and was completed in 1982.....'
suckindeesel
I see an Aran trailer, from the Longmile Rd. The "tiger cage" seems constructed from timber lathes and looks unsuitable for delivery by ship to Jordan.
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Maybe more like '68-'69, like the truck?
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] If you mean JZO 340, we owned it the 70s, but it was not bought new.
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley I actually meant your car and the Beaver, as both lie in the same reg series, AZO 001 to YZO 999 (May 1968 – Mar 1969) My first bike was reg MRI something or other, but can't even remember my current reg when buying an M50 toll in the garage.
suckindeesel
Does that load look too big for a 40-ft. Containers must have been in use here from, say, the 60s?
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/abandonedrailsireland Re the Inchicore photo, the road vehicles may well have been part of the Open Day display. This yard is behind where Broadstone moved to.
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] with my chemical/process engineer’s [hard] hat on, I’m fairly sure that’s a column/tower of some kind (distillation or absorption) rather than a vent. The part facing us is the column skirt, with a drain in the middle. My impression is that this would be too large to transport in a 40’ container, and to be honest I’m not sure if they do that with columns. I normally deal with much larger versions (up to 100 m high) so while I know they get transported as special items I’ve never really thought smaller ones. Some of the other photos show what may be 3 vessels on one truck as well. As I mentioned earlier, the paperwork on the guy’s desk looks more like it is just a quotation, rather than as-built drawings. Now, he may have tidily collected all of the versions of the drawing together, starting with the earliest, but May 1979 does also seem a bit early to be shipping smallish columns to site. Typically you need to start with land preparation, and the largest pieces of equipment and/or steel structure before placing smaller pieces and adding piping etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was an unrelated drawing acting as a prop. (In which case, bold manager/engineer! You shouldn’t have client names clearly visible like that!)
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet I bow to your superior knowledge in this matter. My guess of "vent" was more based on the item shown lying outside in the earlier street view. A different yoke entirely. The photo on the desk looks remarkably similar to Mr. Tynan's NPA TYN198, rather than our "tigers", so the whole thing may be more like studio props. Only "Quotation" box is filled in, as you say, dated ?/3/79 Title looks like "? ? transfer pipeline ?" The vessels, and other various pieces of "machinery" may be unrelated to this order, just views of what was being produced at the time. Construction of the potash plant only started in 1979, no doubt with site clearance etc., too soon to be receiving any pieces of plant. Still, it was a nice theory while it lasted.
nlpnt
The Corolla is a 1975-79 KE30 (1200cc) or TE31 (1600cc), they gave the "big-block" models distinct hoods and grilles but it's impossible to tell them apart from the rear. Import Archive is focused on US-spec models but still a fairly good reference on old Japanese cars; importarchive.com/toyota/corolla/1975-1979/specs
Can Pac Swire
That’s one massive equipment!
RETRO STU
Whesso Ltd on Jamestown Road in Finglas used to make a lot of massive steel drums and tanks like that. To facilitate production, they had two large gantry cranes, one inside and an even larger one outside. Sadly, that company closed some years ago and the site is all leveled.