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Power Scheme
BJUTISH vehicles ranging from Thornycroft Mighty Antar tractors, operating in conjunction with Crane trailers, to LandRovers are in intensive use in the Snowy Mountains of Australia on one of the most difficult projects ever undertaken—the building of dams to harness power for hydro-electricity.
The work will cost 000m. Cheap and plentiful power will be available for north-eastern Victoria and south-eastern New South Wales, and great new cities may rise where today there are villages.
The Thornycroft-Crane outfits are used to bring heavy indivisible pieces of generating equipment from the ports to be installed in the new stations. Journeys involve the negotiation of indifferent roads, steep climbs over mountains and crossing bridges sometimes made of timber piles One Land-Rover in use at the Guthega dam runs between a hopper concrete loader and a derrick, carrying trolleys and buckets. The buckets are about 9 ft. high and weigh 6 tons when full. They are loaded and placed on a trolley. The Land-Rover shunts the trolley to a derrick which drops the bucket 200 ft. to the dam base for pouring, a process which is . continuous day and night.