THE HANDLING OF A BULKY LOAD.
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How Two Great Cases of Machinery for a London Dairy Were Moved and Manoeuvred from the Docks to the Site of the Erection of the Plant.
A PROMINENT concern dealing with milk in large quantities and catering for the south-west district of London, Curtis Bras. and Dumbrill, Ltd., is erecting in Streatham a modern dairy plant, one of the finest to be put up in this country. Here milk will be received in churns from the farms, pasteurized and bottled, the capacity of the plant being 16,000 bottles per hour, the work including the washing and sterilizing of the bottles and their capping after filling. The new building is rapidly approaching completion, and the plant and machinery are now arriving from home and foreign manufacturers, some of it being of very great bulk. We were interested the other day to watch the arrival of two enormous packing cases of bottle-washing machinery. It had travelled during the night from the Victoria Docks, movement having been delayed until that time in order that the normal day traffic in London's streets should not be hampered by such a great bulk. A Foster 5-ton tractor was employed to haul each package, the contract for the transport of the packages having been
placed in the hands of Coulson and Co., of Coronation Road, Park Royal, N.W. 10, who are equipped for and accustored to the handling of big and
heavy loads. The larger of the two packages measured 22 ft. 10 ins, in length; 9 ft. 5 ins,. in width, and 8 ft. 0 ins, in height. For the work of haulage from the docks to the site, each case was, Mounted on two four-wheeled bogies, and when the building at Streatham was reached it was jacked up and transfenied to a single bogey, also on four wheels, but the wheels were small and the platform low, so droppiug the case sufficiently to enable it to be taken through the entrance into the building. The case was tten drawn in by means of a cable taken over the winding drum on a second traction engine (to be seen to the ex-,1 treme right of one of our views). Thd way in which a bulky load weighing over 14 tons, such as the larger package weighed, is manoeuvred through places none too wide for the task and got exactly into the necessary position requires to be seen to be understood and believed.