ONE FLYWHEEL—4O TONS
WORLD RECORD IN MINE EQUIPMENT
In two minutes a load of 8 tons can be brought up from a mine 6000 feet down by an electric winder sent out from Great Britain to one of the City Deep mines in South Africa.
Two similar equipments completed for South Africa carry drums 36 feet across, believed to be the biggest ever made for clcctric winders. Forty tons is the weight of the single piece flywheel in cast steel included in each motor generator set fo.r equalisation purposes.
The same engineering shops have turned out many overseas jobs during the past year, including large turbo-alternators for India, Canada and. Australia.
They arc now building four additional rectifiers Cor the Nalal section of the- South African Railways similar lo those supplied a few years ago for the main line electrification between Durban and Volksrust—th;i largest system in the world opera!ill"' V-If ii; \'i r|• f T IV'C 1i II ''TS.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 158, 22 September 1941, Page 6
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