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Cranes Help to Install Transformers
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BY co-operating with Cranes (Dereham), Ltd., the Oslo Electricity Authority have successfully installed two large three-phase transformers at Smcstad generating station.
When the station was being planned. it was realized that great savings could be made if two such units could be installed instead of six smaller types, but the problem of how to carry the big transformers, each weighing 130 tons, from the railhead to the station, about a quarter of a mile away, was presented:
The transport manager of the Aiithority ConSulted the company, who designed and built a suitable trailer, which had 24 wheels and hydraulic suspension and steering on both front and rear bogies. This unit was delivered in the summer of last year, and a practice run was made over the steep, narrow and winding road to the power station with a 55-ton transformer.
Placing the big transformers on to the trailer proved to be difficult. Accurate location was essential, only 1 cm. being the margin allowed for error. Four tractors were used to haul the trailer.
The most irnpressive maructivre was the negotiation of a 180° bend-, but this was achieved in one go by Mr. J. Rawlings, a specialist engineer from Cranes, who attended_ to advise on the
movement. • "CUT TAX 20%," SAYS INDIAN LEADER
VJk."HICLE taxation should be reduced V by at least 20 per cent., Mr. C. S. Nair, secretary of the Indian Roads and Transport Development Association, has told the Indian. Government.'
Stressing the need to improve transport facilities, he says that by the end of India's second five-year plan, about 200m, tons of goods would tiered longdistance transport. Of this amount, the railways might carry 162m. tons, and water transport about 8m. tons.
India would need about 1.8m. lorries by-, 1960-61, whereas there were only 100,000 today. Mr. Nair suggests that an economical way of providing sufficient transport capacity would be to permit lorries to tow trailers.
E5 FINE ON LICENCE CHARGE
ALTHOUGH he stated that he had received no payment for the job, Benjamin Tomley, Croft Cottage,
• Daywell, Gobowen, Salop, was fined ES at Oswestry last week for using a vehicle without an appropriate carrier's licence.
He was also fined £1 for failing to keep a record of animals carried on his lorry, and £2 for using the vehicle for a purpose which brought it within a category for which a higher rate of tax was due.
Tomley said that he had not recorded the movement of the cattle, as he noted that only of his own animals.