From the Archives, 1981: City comes for Vault sculpture in night raid
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By Janne Apelgren
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Sculpture moved in night raid
In the dead of night they came, a disciplined team armed with tools, trucks and a mobile crane. Their mission: to move the City Square sculpture.
The Vault is dismantled ready to be removed from the City Square, 1981
Credit:The Age
At 3 am yesterday they had begun their work – searching for bolts and joins, pushing, pulling and dismantling. Bars were welded on to the sculpture so it could be lifted on to a truck and, at 8 am, just before the first churchgoers arrived in the city, two trucks and a crane moved the sheets of yellow metal across town to Batman Park.