FUEL DUMPS - best viewed from Allbuery Street looking west. Or from the car park at B.P service station Great Eastern Highway. These are now on private property and the owner has built his house on top of one of the concrete conatainers. The four partly buried tanks held 1 million gallons (4.5 million litres) of fuel each.
No 10 STORES DEPOT `THE HANGARS` - off Railway Avenue looking east. Used as storage for supplies for the Royal Australian Air Force during the war. Measuring 100m x 80m. They have a complete cement floor and a roof held in place by oregon beams. One is now used to store the surplus silo grain coovers for CBH and the other is in use for manufacturing agricultural machinery. Both are on private property.
Category: Landmarks and Buildings
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Fuel Dumps - Alllbuery Street
The Hangars - Railway Avenue
Merredin
Western Australia 6415
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