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Many of the early editions of Mining Review referred to the transition from war to peacetime and how it affected the mining industry. This item shows the various stages of the process by which Sherman tanks, battered veterans of a war that had ended only a few years earlier, are converted into open-cast mining tractors of a kind seen a few months earlier in the Mining Review item on open cast mining (1st Year, No.2, 1947). Perhaps conscious that the reconditioned tanks might be seen as performing much less glamorous tasks than before, the commentary is duly studded with martial metaphors. Not only is this process is a hi-tech equivalent of turning swords into ploughshares, but the new mining tractors will continue to fight new battles - this time for fuel. Michael Brooke
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