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Transport from Quarry to Workshop

Item Title	Description	Archive Date
XS/1072/223	Workmen loading the slate slabs on trucks at the quarry face - the slabs are graded at this stage for colour and texture. (See dorse for explanation.)
XS/1072/224	Workmen loading slate slabs on to trucks at the Quarry face.
XS/1072/225	Workmen loading slate slabs on to trucks at the Quarry face.
XS/1072/226	Workmen loading slate slabs on to trucks at the Quarry face.
XS/1072/227	A truck load of slabs being winched through the air on the aerial ropeway.
XS/1072/228	A Quarry engine pulling a truck load of slate at the tunnel entrance at the foot of one of the older workings at Dinorwic Quarries, Llanberis. The photograph illustrates the problems of development i... more
XS/1072/229	Workmen loading slate on to trucks at a gallery in the Llanberis Quarry, Dinorwic quarries. Blocks are broken into manageable slabs at the quarry face. The gallery width prevents large scale mechani... more
XS/1072/230	Slate slabs in steel cages are winched down the steep incline.
XS/1072/231	Trucks laden with slate travel down the incline towards the workshop below.
XS/1072/232	A Quarry engine tows trucks of slate out of a tunnel.

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