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The Yuill's
enticed Medalta staff to work at the new plant with better wages and working
conditions. 100 key Medalta employees including jiggermen and the plant manager
(Gordon Armstrong) and plant superintendent (Karl Baumler) responded.
The tunnel kiln at the centre of
the factory ran in a circle about
seventy-five feet across and was some 235 feet from one end to the other. The
wares stacked in saggars were loaded on kiln cars that slowly moved
through the kiln in a cycle that took up to forty hours. It
only required one man sitting at the controls to monitor the temperatures and
movement. |
