GIANT IN MANCHESTER
A mew giant has taken up residence in Manchester. It is an electrically operated floating crane, the only one of kind in the world, capable of lifting 250 tons. It is mainly for use in handling the biggest of the canal lock gates. For salvage operations it can raise tremendous weights; and every day it will pick up and swing over 120 tous while dealing with the general traffic on the canal. Built in Rotterdam and towed to the Port of Manchester in eight days, this monster crane''is provided with two auxiliary pontoons to increase its stability wnea raising very heavy loads. In the control room two wheels and a lever give the man in charge complete command of every operation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22955, 5 February 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)
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124GIANT IN MANCHESTER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22955, 5 February 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)
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