Photographs depicting transport of NPD major components to Rolphton

Artifact Number:

2022-047

Description

Four 51 cm by 76 cm, mounted, photographs showing the transport in 1961, by four large trucks, of the major components of the Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD) nuclear reactor being constructed at Rolphton, ON, from the General Electric machine shops in Peterborough, ON, where they had been fabricated.  The “TPT” logo of the Toronto Peterborough Transport Company Limited, the trucking company, is featured at the bottom of each photograph along with the statements “Photo courtesy of Jordan Tanner” and “Convoy of components on route to Rolphton, On (1961).”

Details

Keywords:
photographs; npd reactor
Date:
1961
Notes:

John Tanner, the father of Jordan Tanner, the donor of the photographs, worked for the Toronto Peterborough Transport Company Ltd. during the 1960s.

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