Traveling gantry crane built in United Kingdom, and installed on Nelson pier at Williamstown (Melbourne) to unload 97 1/2-ton locomotives built in Great Britain for Victorian Government Railways; cantilever girders carrying craneway, project from front columns 37 ft over ship's deck when in use; they can be folded back, one over the other, flush with pier face, to avoid obstructing other vessels coming alongside. (See also Engineer v 190 n 4951 Dec 15 1950 p 597-8; Ry Gaz v 94 n 8 Feb 23 1951 p 216-8, 221)
Locomotive unloading gantry
Shipbldg Shipg Rec
Shipbuilding and Shipping Record ; 77 , n 14
1951
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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