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APPENDIX A•1•
HONG KONG AND HAMPOA DOCK CO. LTD.
EVACUATION OF PLANT AND MATERIALS.
1
As requested by you, we beg to submit particulars of a scheme for transporting certain articles and materials. The scheme generally is based on the discussion held on the afternoon of Monday, 14th April, and is the utmost we could do in three days.
It has been assumed that articles would be loaded into a four hatch coaster at our East Yard berth. one hatch would be loaded direct from sea wall by 100-ton Crane and the other three from lighters on outboard side by ship's derricks.
Nine lighters would be employed as follows:-
(1) Three at loading points near the shops with three
spare to ensure continuous loading.
(2) Three alongside ship at Hatches.
(We formerly said six lighters).
It will be seen on the sheet attached, which gives full particulars of lifts, that none of this loading, 1.e. of machine parts, would start for twelve hours after receipt of instructions. This time would probably be needed for procuring and berthing the ship, but if ship were alongside sooner the loading of materials could be commenced and continued until the machine parts were ready.
It may be possible to "sandwich" in a certain amount of materials while loading the machine parts, and for the purposes of arriving at a fair figure we take the equivalent of 100 tons per hour for 12 hours as the amount of materials we would be able to load.
The following are the three men who would travel with the ship to supervise installation of Machinery at destination:-
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Mr. S. Gray
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