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Dream it.
Ric Macey (right) and Greg Sims at the Opening of the Emerald, QLD, Cable Repair Workshop, 1990
Start it.
In 1981, Ric Macey (far right) established Rutherford Cable Repairs which specialized in high voltage testing, fault location and repair services.
Build it.
High Voltage and Electrical Cable Test Unit February 1981
Plan it.
The first Mining Engineers Conference at the Speers Point Hotel.
Repair it.
Cable racks, Illawarra Cable Repairs in Oak Flats, NSW, 1994.
Dream it.
Ric Macey (left) at Engineering Conference
London 1979
Deliver it.
Repaired cables out for delivery, Illawarra Cable Services, Oak Flats, 1993
Repair it.
Staff at Illawarra Cable Repairs in Oak Flats, NSW, 1994.
Move it.
Illawarra Cable Services ran a fleet of Hiab crane trucks for cable pickups and returns. Photo 1996.
Find it
Greg Sims working onsite Van Dyks gold mine, outside Johannesburg, South Africa 1989.
Repair it.
Repair and testing onsite at an open cut coal mine in the Hunter Valley - drills and dragline cables being repaired.
Build it.
Fully automatic cable bench built and designed by Greg Sims in 1976. This bench is still in operation 45 year later in Lithgow, NSW.
Grow it.
Greg Sims (left) and Ric Macey in 1989 on a visit to Frahl Cable Services in Springs, South Africa.
Design it.
Original partial break hammer - designed and built the 1970s by Ric Macey.
Fit it.
Onsite at HMAS Kuttabul, Garden Island, Sydney NSW. Fitting plugs for the Royal Australian Navy, in 1989.
Build it.
Early Cable Handler 1970s - designed and built by Ric Macey
Teach it.
Mobile showroom and demonstration bus - built and designed by Ric Macey and traveled around Australia visiting mines and electrical authorities. Photo 1996.
Show it.
Titan Manufacturing Co. Pty Ltd exhibiting at a trade show in 1978.
Fix it.
Inside Rutherford Cable Repairs
cable workshop 1994
Grow it.
Ric Macey and Greg Sims at the launch of Ganda Supplies in 2021
Start it.
Greg Sims (center) explaining cable joining techniques to John Beattie (CEO of Austen and Butta Mines), Angelo Butta (co-owner of Austen and Butta Mines), Des Saunders (Manager - Charbon Mines) and Tom Leslie Mayor of Lithgow and Leonie Kirkwood (far right) at the opening launch of Titan Manufacturing in December 1976.
Start it.
Greg Sims at BHP Titan in 1970
Grow it.
Greg Sims (5th from Left) took over as General Manager of Rutherford Cable Repairs in 1995.
Fix it.
Rutherford Cable Repairs in the late 1980s. Many shuttle car and miner cables in for repairs.
Detect it.
Illawarra Cable Repairs staff with paper lead on the big drum roller. Designed by Greg Sims in 1991
Show it.
Lithgow Cable Repairs & Rutherford Cable Repairs at 1987 Mining Trade show in Luddenham.
Repair it.
Working onsite in 1981 (with RC Aircraft) with a high voltage test tower. Each unit is 25k volts.
Build it.
Lithgow Cable Repairs - Toronto Division was established by Greg Sims in 1990.
Evolve it.
1st and 2nd Generation Mobile Test Uni Vans. Designed by and built by Ric Macey - Photo 1981.