The Power Makers

My older brother worked in similar power station in nz,meremere. I used to go through the plant as a 14yr old.The set-up identical to the plant shown here.Probably a bit smaller. Furnaces, turbines and lots of dials. All in one huge hall. Would've been '69.

Auer Drives

I bet George wished he could be the radio announcer instead of working with coal.
The music used in these factual films always belies the blood sweat & tears these workers endured in reality

Absolutely love the production values in this little film. A wonderful vignette of 1957 life in Australia.

Sadly the once beautiful company owned town of Yallourn got in the way of the open cut mine and was demolished, its residents relocated to neighbouring towns of Moe, Newborough and beyond.

at least he could afford a house and a car and feed a pile of kids and his wife didn't have to frag herself to look after the kids and hold a fulltime job just to scrape by

❤ Thank you for posting.

Legends

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Driving to work on day shift in winter and the sun is already up.

Lots of health and safety lol

No occupational health and safety back then

still used all over the world and Australia as the main form of electricity...

Those blokes certainly got short shifts !

Amazing…driving to work in an Australian built car …but without seat belts and likely a couple of Tooheys or VB in the glove box. No Health/occupational safety … no personal safety equipment, walking across live rail lines , exposures to toxins . People were expendable back then, glad we live in 2024

Over here in America 🇺🇸. Back in those days if you didn’t go to college you either worked there with other relatives or you went into the military. Job like this you were set for life.

No end you say?

A Documentary should be made now, directly mirroring this video from 1957 with its operation today.
Would be fascinating.
No politics, just a record of the passing of life.

Superb film quality.

Days before dust collectors and presips, and you could ride the load, I can remember those days

Glorious times

Thanks for showing this. An amazing piece of history and technology of a bygone era.

Thank you so much for uploading this, I have been wanting to see it for a while now. Such an important milestone in the history of Victorian industry. The town of Yallourn was so beautiful, it is an abolute tragedy that it was built on top of a coal seam and had to be demolished to expand the open cut mine in the 1970's and 80's.

I highly recommend the book Yallourn Power Station: A History 1919 - 1989 by Colin Harvey to anyone wanting to learn more about the history and technical details of the original Yallourn power station and briquetting works.

Fancy wearing light coloured gear while working with coal! Diana Fisher would be beside herself! And so much safety consciousness! If the high dive for the dogmen and construction work doesn't get you fast, the tinnitus buzz of industrial hearing damage surely must!

I thought that improvements in car brake longevity came from technology.... but the way doggsy drives on the way to work I predict someone must have been changing his brake linings regularly!

The director of this, Lee Robinson, was involved in the Australian T V series Skippy and Barrier Reef.

These old movies never get... old.

Oh, dear. Thank god this era is coming to an end.