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Stretching a point calling this rolling stock. It has featured already in an image of the soaking pits. It's an ingot chariot and its role is to carry white hot ingots from the soaking pits to the rolling mill. Often rope hauled, this one is electrically driven and the power collector can be seen to the right. The ingot sits vertically in the chariot and on arrival at the rolling mill feed table the arm mechanism flips the ingot up and over onto its side. This machine runs on broad gauge rails and weighs 100 tons unladen. It was supplied by United Engineering & Foundry in Pittsburg, U.S.A. to Margam works.