MECHANICAL BRICKLAYER.
A mechanical bricklayer, worked by electricity or petrol, that will lay 10,000 bricks a day, promises to revolutionise the building industry. It is called the “K” erector. Bricklayers lay only a few hundred bricks a day. The “K" erector requires three men
to work it, but it lays as many bricks a squad of 20 men, supposing they lay 500 each. Estimates of the number of bricks that bricklayers lay in these days varies from 300 to 750. The erector has been manufactured by Sir William Arrol and Co. (Ltd), of Glasgow, and is at present employed on a large housing scheme in Glasgow. Its inventor ■ 'as engaged for five yea-s in perfecting it. “K”
looks like a travelling overheat crane. The apparatus that lays the bricks and mortar moves backwards and forwards along a cross-beam which can be moved over the whole site of the house
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18900, 22 December 1923, Page 13
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149MECHANICAL BRICKLAYER. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18900, 22 December 1923, Page 13
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