Using a Thornycroft in Well Drilling E NCCA.TRAGED by the Government's
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promised assistance for approved schemes, up to a total grant_of .1,000,000, various local authorities and estate owners are busy examining ways and means for ensuring adequate supplies of water, particularly for domestic purposes. Practically every district has a plentiful supply of water underground, either at Or near the required point, and the obvious solution
of the water-shortage problem is the tapping of these underground supplies by means of artesian wells.
Contractors and public authorities will, therefore, he interested in the outfit illustrated, comprising a Thornycroft Bulldog 3-ton lorry towing a Bucyrus-Armstrong modern all-steel well drill marketed by Ruston-Bucyrus, Ltd., Lincoln. Power is applied to the drilling mechanism through heavy steel machine-cut gears, the main driving shaft being driven by an endless belt from the chassis power-takeoff.
The drill is supplied for mounting ort a lorry, or as a two-wheeled trailer, Or for hauling by a tractor. The outfit illustrated is capable of drilling holes from S ins. to 12 ins, in diameter, and Many users have sunk wells to a depth of 1,300 ft.