Boilers Moved To Ham

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30575, 19 October 1964, Page 14

Boilers Moved To Ham

A 50-ton boiler and parts of another, which will be installed at Canterbury University, were transported from the firm of Andersons Engineering, Ltd., in Curries road, to the university site at Ham on Saturday. Four trucks were needed to carry the parts that made up the complete boiler. Today or tomorrow three trucks will take the rest of the second boiler. Each boiler is in three main sections, the heaviest of

which, the main drum, weighs 32 tons. This section is about 12ft 6in in diameter and 17ft long. The entire boiler is 13ft in diameter and 30ft long. The boilers will be assembled on the site, and installed in the new boilerhouse in about six months. The boiler-house has not yet been built. It took three to four months to complete the coal-fired boilers, each of which can produce more than 20,0001 b of steam an hour. They will be used mainly to provide steam heating. At the engineering works the boiler sections were

loaded on to a special transporter by overhead cranes, and at the university .site they were unloaded by a mobile crane, after tests had been made to ensure they would not sink into the ground under their own weight. They were taken by way of Opawa road, Shakespeare road, Moorhouse avenue, Blenheim road, and Riccarton road, the journey taking about an hour and a half. No telephone lines had to be lifted to permit their passage. The boilers are the largest to have been made in New Zealand. More such units are likely to be made as the university expands.