Mobile Crane Capsizes During Weight Tests
[Special to “Northern Advocate.”] AUCKLAND, This Day. While undergoing weight tests at the Hobson wharf at about 9 o’clock this morning the new mobile crane belonging to the harbour board capsized and finished with* its wheels in the air and the crane arms at the bottom of the harbour with a two-ton test weight attached. The driver jumped clear just in time to escape injury. Oil and petrol poured on to the wharf from an overturned truck. The board’s floating crane hoisted the crang arm and test weights from the harbour and replaced it on the wharf. Except for a slight bending of the angle iron, the crane was undamaged.
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Northern Advocate, 9 May 1940, Page 4
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