AN ENGINEERING FEAT
Moving a church steeple 30 yards has been carried out in Germany. Girders 2ft. by ift. were put crosswise under the tower, and embedded in cement. Below these were piaced wooden sleepers, held together by iron plates ; the iron plates rested on steel rolls 2'm. in diameter, fixed sin. apart, running on rails based on a grid of longtitudinal and traverse girders. The longtitudinal girders rested on jacks by means of which the tower and the special structure were raised Bin.; the forward motion was then effected by means of eight windlasses. The movement, says "Engineering," amounted to 4m. only the first day, but finally to sft. per day. Arrived on the new foundations, the tower was lowered again.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 August 1911, Page 7
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122AN ENGINEERING FEAT Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 August 1911, Page 7
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