special types of vehicles which have bodies built in the workshops will in fact double their life expectancy.
213. The installation at the end of the year of two sets of lifts and ramps on the second leg of the pier at Kowloon completed the contract for the erection and installation of the six electrically operated lifts of the new 'Star' Ferry Piers in Hong Kong and Kowloon which commenced in October 1956.
214. A 21 ton lead screen mounted on an electrically operated trolley was constructed and installed in the Radio Cobalt Room, Queen Mary Hospital.
215. Pressure vessels overhauled and surveyed during the year included eight steam boilers, four calorifiers, fourteen autoclaves, fifty-three sterilizers, eighteen rice boilers and five pressure ovens. In addition, the steam installation at Stanley Prison was completely overhauled including the replacement of all the steam piping and fittings.
216. The Mechanical Plant Section had a very busy year maintaining all Government's civil and mechanical plant, diesel generating sets, well water pumps, lawn mowers, etc., as well as installing numerous additional generating sets, water pumps, petrol pumps and storage tanks.
217. Six 10-ton diesel engined road rollers, three vibrating type motor rollers, one 210 c.f.m. mobile air compressor, one light farm tractor and numerous other items of mechanical equipment were received from the Crown Agents, assembled and put into service.
218. Major overhauls were carried out on seven road rollers, three mobile air compressors, two bulldozers, a number of generating sets and other odd items of plant. Four road rollers which had been bogged in soft ground and submerged during the June rains had to be completely stripped down for inspection and reassembled before being put back into service.
219. Additional equipment received and installed in the workshops included an engraving machine, a commutator lathe, a magnetic crack detecting machine, a 'Pullmax' sheet metal working machine and three electrically operated synchronous time recording machines, together with a capstan lathe transferred from the K.C.R. Workshops.
220. The number of jobs completed by the Mechanical Workshops totalled 35,633.
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