The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

3o6 THE MECHANICAL HANDLING OF MATERIAL was 50 m., or 164 ft., high, and in 1912 it was raised by a further 60 m., or 197 ft., giving'the mast a total height of 110 m., or 360 ft. The station was, however, not raised to the top of the mast but only to a height of 75 m., or 246 ft., in order not to convey the material higher than necessary. The capacity of the ropeway is 180 tons per hour. Fig. 445. Ropeway Terminal over a Spoil Heap. Installations by J. & E. Wright1 Amongst the installations erected by Messrs J. & E. Wright, of the Universe Works, Birmingham, may be mentioned the aerial ropeway at the Tottington Mills, Lancashire, employed for conveying cloth from the dye to the finishing works, the length of line being 1,600 ft. Also the ropeway used by Messrs J. & J. M. Worral, Ltd., Salford, for the carriage of cases of goods, the length of line being 780 ft. Electrically Driven Ropeways A series of experiments have been made, and as a matter of fact small installations of electrically driven rope and cableways have been executed, one of which is at work at 'Glynde in Sussex, and the other at Weston in Somerset. This method of driving, which is known as Telpherage, possesses undoubted advantages, as it dispenses with the haulage rope, a live wire taking its place, but it is as yet only in its infancy as far as ropeways are concerned. For further descriptions of above systems of ropeways see “Aerial or Wire Rope-Ways,” by A. J. Wallis-Tayler. 1 See Hipkin’s “ The Wire Rope and its Application” (Birmingham, D. F. Tayler & Co., Ltd.).