Grease Pump
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 60mm · f/4.0 · 1/8 · ISO 250
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
This industrial grease pump, once vital, now rests silent inside the derelict O-I Glass facility. Rust colours its metal surface, hinting at years of disuse.
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Limited edition
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In situ
Print datasheet
- Title
- Grease Pump
- Series
- O-I Glass
- Catalogue
- OIG-006
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 18 December 2011
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/4.0
- Shutter
- 1/8 s
- ISO
- 250
- Focal length
- 60 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Thomastown, Victoria, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia
Thomastown, Victoria, Australia
Map · Mapbox · OpenStreetMap
A Lincoln grease pump sits bolted to a concrete plinth on the factory floor. Cobwebs lace the housing and lever mechanism, thick enough to catch the light falling from clerestory windows deep in the background. The triangular Lincoln logo is still legible beneath a layer of grime. Behind it, the floor stretches back through steel columns into a long industrial bay. Debris and dust cover every surface.
Brett Patman
The series
O-I Glass
O-I Glass at Spotswood was the original Melbourne Glass Bottle Works -- the foundation site of glass-bottle manufacturing in Australia and New Zealand. Felton & Grimwade started the Melbourne Glass Bottle Co in Graham Street, South Melbourne, in 1872, then relocated to Spotswood in 1890. By 1908 it was the largest bottle producer in Victoria. The operation amalgamated into Australian Glass Manufacturers (AGM) in 1916, renamed Australian Consolidated Industries (ACI) in 1939, and was acquired by Owens-Illinois (O-I) in 1998 when the multinational bought ACI Packaging from BTR plc. Glass was produced on the site for over a century. The plant was substantially shut down by 1997, the rail siding to Koala Siding ceased operating in 1998, and the buildings were demolished around 2012. The Lost Collective photographs are from the abandoned period before the demolition.
Print sizes
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