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No 21 Bucket Dredger
SEC Powerworks Visitor Centre Ridge Road,, MORWELL VIC 3840 - Property No B5334
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No.21 dredger built by Lubecker Maschinenbau Gesellschaft (LMG), Lubeck, Germany (serial no.1074) for the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV). The dredger was ordered in 1950, and commenced operations October 1955. It is a bucket wheel excavator fitted with a slewable superstructure, a bucket wheel with crowd (thrust), mounted on crawlers, and has a service weight of 725 tons. It was used for excavating overburden and brown coal from the Morwell open cut mine until
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