BOILER HOUSE STACK ERECTED WITHOUT HITCH.
TJ® erection of the sixty foot Boiler House Stack, four feet in diameter and. weighing three and. a half tons, was, to the layman <, F the most exacting and neatest job undertaken by the Services Section In thsar waive on ths island » i • '
TO the Engineer the job was a challenge which-allowed no error in calculations and. judges, merit.::: WITH a 20 tom-crane ' graspihg it a. few foot above the.point of balance f the Stack was lifted up, and the lower end resting on a trolley, rolled slowly forward ter' a prepared. base. At the right moment the Stack swugg clear,& foot ropes guided the lowa* end over the had nin+« •’ -‘
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Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 18, 20 May 1944, Page 9
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