COALING MACHINE
a Wanganui invention.
An invention, by Mr P. H. Suisted, a 1 former resident -of Wanganui, for the coaling of ships is favourably commented upon by “ Engineering " of. August 28th, It is intended for lifting coal direct from 1 barges and shooting it into a steamer's bunkers, thus obviating the slow and dirty system of coaling by hand with baskets or bags. The elevator ip carried -on a superstructure built above: two pontoons, which lie parallel to each other and 2Sft apart, &o that coal'bargee when being unloaded can lie between them. The elevator buckets each hold sowt of coal, and the machine cam digcharge from 100 to 150 tons of coal an hour down any of the chutes, or the three together. After successful trials with a working model the inventor formed a company—Suisted's Patent Coal Elevator, Ltd., of London. Since manufacturing the elevator it has worked very successfully, and on© of the last vessels coaled by it was the Euahine.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7263, 20 October 1910, Page 5
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164COALING MACHINE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7263, 20 October 1910, Page 5
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