Mine Equipment
A WORLD'S RECORD
In two minutes a load of eight tons can be brought up from a mine 6,000 feet down by an electric winder .sent out from Great Britain to one of the City Deep mines in. South Africa. Two similar equipments completed for South Africa carry drums 36 feet across, believed to be the biggest ever made for electric winders. Forty •tons is the weight of the single piece flywheel in cast steel included in each motor generator set for equalisation purposes.
The same engineering shops have turned out many overseas jobs during the past year, including large turbo-alternators for India, Canada and Australia. They are now building four additional rectifiers for the Natal .section of the South African Railways similar ,to those supplied a few years ago for the main line electrification between Durban and Volksrust—the largest system in the world operating with inverted rectifiers.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 74, 16 September 1941, Page 4
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150Mine Equipment Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 74, 16 September 1941, Page 4
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