CRANE FOR PULP MILL
CONTRACT FOR FIRM IN CHRISTCHURCH
A contract to supervise the erection of an electric log-hauling crane on the Kawerau mill site of the Tasman Pulp and Paper Company at Murupara, has been gained by a Christchurch engineering and importing firm. The firm, Bobth, Macdonald and -Company, Ltd., is the first Christchurch business to gain a major contract at Murupara.
The crane, which is 100 ft high with a boom 90ft long, will handle 5000 tons of logs in eight hours, with a maximum lift of 30 tons. It will have the biggest output o e f any hammerhead crane irf the Southern Hemisphere. According to the manager of the construction equipment division of Booth, Macdonald and Company, Ltd. (Mr J. B. Carline) tenders for the construction of the crane had come from overseas. His company was agent for the Mitchell Engeneering Group in England, with which the order had been placed. Factories in Britain and Europe would make the parts. Mr Carline said the . order stipulated that the crane must be working by January, 1955. He thought it would take about six months _to erect it. Operators would be trained by the firm to work the crane in two 10-hbur »shifts a day. The firm would also be responsible for the crane’s maintenance.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27192, 9 November 1953, Page 3
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