The coal unloader that got away
26th May 1984, Page 22
26th May 1984
Page 22
Page 22, 26th May 1984
— The coal unloader that got away
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THE TRANSPORT of a boom section of a coal unloader 80ft long, 34ft high and 25ft wide and weighing 76 tons might be thought to have been a red rag to a picket. Overhead wires, traffic islands and parked cars were removed between Renfrew and Glasgow docks to make way for Pickfords' 12-axle Nicolas 347-tonne combination and Scammel I tractor, which forestalled any fun that striking miners might have been contemplating.
In fact, the boom section — one of many built by Babcock — was bound for the Castle Peak power station of China Light and Power Co in Hong Kong, where everyone is too busy to strike.