RAILWAYS’ RECORD ORDER FOR CRANES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 91, 8 July 1927, Page 8

RAILWAYS’ RECORD ORDER FOR CRANES

MACHINES DOMINION CONTRACTS Press Association, WELLINGTON, Thimbu •THE Railway Board ha, pLceda largest order for railway * It* shops crane* over accepted i n J, Zealand, some within the D ort , and others with English t'" 0 ” Tenders for 183 cranes ,„4 electric hoist blocks have °|J? approved. The cranes run 100-ton lift. 1 w o each of these are fer the and Hillside locomotive slsops raise a complete locomotive pJS present conditions the time iEvr,:!2i lifting a locomotive oft its whsM. * at least half a day. but * cranes will do the same worts ; than an hour. " The 25-ton cranes are also f or lifts at two locomotive shop! 10-ton cranes will be used for wagon shops, where they utilised to lift wagons oft' their 0f in a few minutes, instead of th» a process of jacking them up by n^' Every crane will l, e electric*]!, worked, and some are capable of elling out into the workshops’ yardf" This new equipment will sa\a immense amount of time in handii* 8 heavy railway material, and S greatly expedite repair jobs when much time has to be taken ud in ting at tlie actual work to bt don!' ' the undergear of vehicles. 011 This new railway machinery will supplied by the following * Messrs. Anderson and Co, church. 120 jib cranes: Messrs.S' son and Hughes, England. 120 e liv,. hoist blocks: H. Morris, lour f~£ elevators, seven 7*-ton 23 10-tokSi 12 5-ton travelling cranes; Clvde rvi? and Engineering Works, seven ' , travelling cranes: .Craven Bros tvland. two 25-ton travelling crane, William Arrol. four 100-ton cranes; Ransomes. Simms and four electric mobile cranes.