Contract for couplings
(N.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) LONDON, Nov. 3. A contract to provide 100 high-yield steel galvanised couplings, each 14 feet in diameter, for use on the Upper Waitaki hydro-electric power scheme has been awarded to a British company. Victaulic Company, Ltd, of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, said in a statement that the couplings would be used to connect pipe sections in two 4200-foot long steel penstocks which will be a main feature of the Tekapo B power house. The couplings, allowing for temperature and ground movement, will connect 70-foot spans of exposed penstocks to receive water from the canal running between Lakes Tekapo and Pukaki. First deliveries of the pipes to the New Zealand Ministry of Works is expected this month. Victaulic, part of the tubes division of the British Steel Corporation, is one of the world’s biggest producers of mechanical pipe couplings and joints.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33065, 4 November 1972, Page 3
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