by having two holes drilled in the rails one at the upper
and the other at the lower end
of the Tramway)
f) and brass
- pins securely fixed and soldered into
the holes.
The best solder as suggested
should then be applied to each end of the cable, and on completion of the rests, the
cable should
Lightly
pass over the
guide pulleys
and the extension caused in
laying the cable, accurately
measured
and recorded in
a book to be kept for that purpose.
The extension of the
cable having been accurately
measured
such extension should
then be compared with the schedule of results of the Tensile tests, of a
portion cut off the
cable
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cable, and made by Mr. Phos. Nach, of the Sheffield Testing Works, dated 29th May 1893
attached to the Engineer’s letter dated 5th March
1894.
The Tramway Company
should I think be directed to
supply to the Government duplicate certificate of the tests of Tensile strains of each new cable supplied for the Tramway.
On applying the first
cable any excess
of extension beyond that shown on the schedule of strains, would
show that some portion or portions, of the cable were weaker than that portion which had been cut off and tested,
that such defect or
defects would have to be found and
made good before the cable
could