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The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material
The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material
Forfatter: A.-M.Inst.C E., George Frederick Zimmer
År: 1916
Forlag: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Sted: London
Sider: 752
UDK: 621.87 Zim, 621.86 Zim
Being a Treatise on the Handling and Storing of Material such as Grain, Coal, Ore, Timber, Etc., by Automatic or Semi-Automatic Machinery, together with the Various Accessories used in the Manipulation of such Plant
322 THE MECHANICAL HANDLING OF MATERIAL
terminal towers are respectively 60 and 72 ft. high. This cableway was erected for the
purpose of constructing a viaduct over the Cannington Valley for the Axminster and
Lyme Regis Light Railway. The piers of the viaduct were erected without the use of
any scaffolding, and solely by the use of the cableway. Some of the piers are 72 ft. in
height, and are composed of massed concrete.
Cableways of a similar design have been used for the construction of the Vauxhall
and Kew Bridges. Cableways have also been used for the erection of viaducts at
Kirkcaldy, Durham, and in Devonshire.