MERCER AERIAL ROPEWAY
Supply Of Coal To Power Station
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 7. New Zealand’s longest aerial ropeway is running between the Maramarua coalfield and the Mercer power station.
So far only 227 of the 618 buckets to be used are running—arid they are all empty. But by Monday the resident engineer at Mercer (Mr J. W. Marshall) hopes that the southern section of the ropeway will begin delivering to the station all the coal it needs at present. The northern section will operate in about three weeks. The ropeway goes in a straight line between the station and Maramarua
Each of the two sections, which total 13 miles in length, will operate for eight hours a day at full capacity, carrying 165 tons of coal an hour. Each bucket carries slightly more than half a ton at six miles an hour.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28889, 8 May 1959, Page 19
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