NEW WHARF CRANES

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29842, 7 June 1962, Page 7

NEW WHARF CRANES

£446,615 For Twelve

A tender of £446,615 by Clyde Engineering, Ltd., of Lower Hutt, was accepted by the Lyttelton Harbour Board yesterday for 12 electric wharf cranes for the new harbour extension. Seven firms tendered—three from the United Kingdom, one from Germany, one from Portugal and one from Italy—and tenders ranged from the accepted price to £827,983. The cranes will be electric cargo and grabbing wharf cranes, portal type spanning three rail tracks and capable of lifting a maximum of five tons at a radius of 77ft 6in. Tenders were considered in committee, and in open meeting the board announced that all seven tenderers offered cranes partly manufactured in New Zealand and six offered, as an alternative, cranes completely manufactured overseas. "The tender of Clyde Engineering was the lowest, and in addition it involved the use of the lowest amount of overseas currency,” said the boara’s statement. “It covered the supply of one crane completely built and tested at the works of Thomas Smith and Sons • Radley), Ltd., England, shipped to New Zealand, reerected and tested in Lyttelton; and 11 cranes partially manufactured by the English flrm and partially in New Zealand. “Final acceptance, it was resolved, would be subject to the tenderer obtaining an import licence. “Delivery of the first crane would be 15 to 16 months from acceptance date, and thereafter one every six weeks.”