Loading Iron Ore at Hamersley's Tom Price mine. WA.

I took this silent movie when I was working at Hamersley Iron's Tom Price iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of WA, in the late 1970's.
The smaller haultrucks were Wabco120B and the larger ones were Wabco3200B, ( They carried well over 200 tons of iron ore at a time.) Both were relatively easy to drive once you had got used to their size.
I think the quality of the movie is pretty good, considering it's age and the fact that it has been transferred from old Cine film---VHS---DVD---PC and finally to YouTube.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Hamersley Iron
• Tom Price
• Wabco
• Wabco120B
• Wabco3200B
• Iron Ore
• Pilbara
• WA
• Mining

[tonnstock]

What years was this (Super 8?) shot?

[miccar37]

@tonnstock Hi, Not sure of the exact date, I reckon somewhwere around the late 1970's.

[nabsta05]

we lived there in the early 80's I grew up in Tom Price.....

[thetingchen]

Can you provide your company website? I am an iron buying agent, want to find out more info. of your company. thank you

[DanielMichau]

Takes the mind back Old Shovel 9 I remeber that old girl being laid to rest

[phoenixtwiggy]

I travelled from Perth to Broome September this year and one place we stopped was Tom Price. I tell you it was stinking hot there!

[1snappytom]

P7H 1900AL WABCO HAUL PAK 1970 O THEY WHERE THE DAYS THE 3200 THAT THER DRIVEN FROM TOM PRICE TO NEWMAN IN THE 80

[allistairc123]

excellent, thanks for sharing. i visited tom price mine in 09 !

[blastor06]

thanks for sharing mate

[buggeral]

Oh this is so well done, I was there in 86 for a couple of years and still dream about it. I just wish I had bought back a bit of that dam heavy rock stuff that broke my brain when the shovel dumped it on the back of the little 200 ton tonka toys.

Thanks for the memory.