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Description: | This is a shipyard automatic plate profiling machine. It automatically cut steel plates to the correct shape for fitting to a ship's hull. It used a photographic negative of the outline of the shape, which was followed by a sensor guiding the cutting torches. When was installed at Bartram's shipyard in about 1957 it was the first of its type in Britain. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | made in the North East shipbuilding | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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