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In the snows of January 1963, Tom Caroll and John Harfield, local GPO engineers, stand alongside one of the many collapsed metal power poles in the area. These poles, constructed of steel sections were fixed to their mounts with large metal rivets. In the extreme temperatures of 1963 the securing rivets sheared completely.

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