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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1940,

ENGINEERING PAGE

AUSTRALIA NOW MAKING EARTH-MOVING EQUIPMENT

By ANGUS BRAMMALE

In eight years Austra- lie has become a many, facturer of heavy earth moving machinery." A lusty industry is working 24 hours a day to help moot the noods of Aust tralia's developmental projects, and also to sup› ply a growing export trade to Asian and other coun trics.

British and United States production-line methods BTC used in Australia's manufac-

thring and assembling plants. One organisation, alone employs more than 2,500 workers, of the industry's total of 25,000. The unniml pay roll of the industry exceeds LA9,500,000.

A decade ago, manufacture of earth-moving equipment in Aue. tralia wax on a small aculu, but the war changed that.

Within weeks of Japan's blow at l'earl Harbour United States | technicians were busy in Austra- lia, supervising the assembly and the 120st modern plant and the necessary "tooling up."

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Stritch & Distribution Gear.

SEAL CONDUIT CO., LTD., LONDON.

Electric Conduits.

TELSEN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

CONTACTUM LTD.

Accessories.

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Bulbs & Fluorescent Tubes.

NICO LIGHT ENGINEERING CO., LTD., LONDON.

WADES METAL SPINNERS LTD." Domestic, Marine & Industrial Fittings.

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Australian-built equipment at work on extensions to the Kingsford Smith airport at Mas- cat, Gydney. This tractor has. Just gathered fin laad, of sand from Botany Bay, where Captain Cook landed and took possession of Australia's Bast coast in 1770. The tractor shown le a "Tournaput" made by La Tourneau (Aust), Pty. Ltd., Bydney, New South Wales.

Kilded concentrated in the shock-repleting are in a single unit for drive wheel

strength. Power reverse is fitted on many models.

At the Muswellbrook open cut cost, mfar, in New South Wales, [3,000,000, tona of, quorhurden were stripped by machines of this type from the en then, which has yielded 1,500,000, tops of

spal in four years. The daily total of mechanical stripping at open cuts transmission

in New South Wales more

than 27,000 tons.

In

And so the story goes on. every part of the continent whore there is a big job to be done Aus- tralian made equipment is playing a vital part in the building of a nation.

New South Wales, into Murrtum bidgee River for power and irrigation. The cost is estimated at £160,000,000.

Soon Australian workmen Simple Operation were cutting, welding, ensting and forging Australian steel into On this high-speed, 103 ho.. uppropriate shapes and sizes.pneumatic-tyred monster, gear. Maching and heat treatment of shifting is eliminated and cons integral parts were being carried tant mesh

allowa

erosion is being fought with in- In arid and wind-swept areas out with a fine collection, of, mp-

non-stop, instantaneous specxl lern production machine tools. selectieji, forward and reverse.

genious machines which ditch, Operation, with the finger-tip Used with a 35 cable yard carry- terrace, bank or level-doing, is Au the need for more airfields steering laver, is extremely simple,all, one of the most useful pieces hours, work which onco would and more and better roada became The lever controls the air-actuated for equipment made in Australia, have taken days and weeks. New Increasingly urgent, the output disc clutches and brakes, which, this tractor averaged 53 pay yards roads are pushing ever forward of Australian plants expanded in turn, govern the two wheels an hour over, an 8,600 feet trip at into productive districts, so that Batil they were producing all the on either side.

Klows, Victoris, where seven re- Australia's foot, wool and miner- carth-moving equipment required

South-West for the

Pacific area.

No transport is needed, as this servoirs are, being built to store al wealth many be further exploit-

and utilise water from a ente-cil for the world's good. And work did not slacken with machine in move from place to ment area, of 175, squpro nulica---

Vast hydro-electric schemes are the war's end. The

its own power at and this was after 14 points. of saa of place, under

tires rain had fallen...

proceeding; new, and greater coal nchievement has not yet reached 15 miles, an hour-three

dopoaits are being uncovered; air- the speed of a track "dozer. The, shock-absorbing low-pressure tyres, In New Zealand, 1,300 pay fields are being extended and ambi- give greater traction and adap-yartis of loose shingle were tious food projects launched. And tability, and the cable-controlled moved by one machine in a day, all this despite the grave shortage blade is raised and lowered by n over a 1,100, feat one-way haul of labour, power control unit.

The carry all scraper is bulli Only 170 men are employed on operations are offee-to load, haul and spread in a the construction of the Glenbawn Scone, New South A machino dam, near on Australian continuous operation.

its climax.

Leading tively handled

Throughout the world vast developmental projects are under Way or "in planning". These involve the moving of stupendowy yardages of earth and rocks, and the lovelling of a thousand forents.

So a steady stream of ex-jobs by either the conventional or great mobility and strength, Wales, but in just a little more dozor shovel by detachableta rugged, ox-like construction than two years, with the aid of equipment which fits over and is prevents weaving and distortion, attached to all standard type- tractors.

ravators, dozers, tractors and other heavy equipment is, pour ing off the preduction lines week after wook, month after month. Last year more than £A1,900,- 000 worth of equipment was put into service by i singlo Aus trolinn factory.

With the full power of the tractor behind it, that 13 cubic yard bucket of the detachable loader digs deep into the dirt On Australia's biggest construc- and then takes a smooth, over: tion job of all time-the Snowy head follow-through to the wait. River

hydro-electrie and water ing truck or trailer at the rear. vonservation scheme hills and

The tractor is not turned round ravines will crumble soon; beforg

the remorseless onslaught of the or stewed about as is the ordinary most modern type of dozer_pro- front-end loader. A large front Juced near Sydney, New South roller on ball bearings "prevents Wales, by La Tourneau (at) the tractor from nosing down. I'ty. Ltd.

The "detachability" principle This eight-year project provided has also been used on Australiani for the diversion of two-thirds made tilt-and-angle dozora, which of the Snowy River, in Southern combine many of the best features of tho stereotyped dozer. The blades of these machines can be reddily angled from right to left or tilted for digging with the tip. Cable-controlled, both attachments are especially useful for side-hill cuts, sloping, ditching, or levelling spoil dumps.

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With a capacity of four to 10 euble yards, the scraper may be towed behind a crawlor or pneu: matic-kyred tracter, Tractor drawbar pull is eliginated by the ungle at which the hub is not, ensuring ploughlike penetration Apron arme dire set outside the bowl, giving casy closing, and there a independent apron and tailgate operation.

From the rain forests of North Queensland to the pine and hard- wood camps in Tasmania, the lumber industry demands more, and more Australian-made logging arches and timber winches, both designed specially for Australian conditions.

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The powerful arch, with Ita overall width of 9 feet 8 Inches 20 11 feet 8 Inches, will handio forest giant or Calender sapling with equal earn. Mounted, on large, low-pressure tyres, the arch la attached to the accompanying

bý a dras-pin bar, The The conventional tractar, for-

tractor:

gravity centro of the arch, merly imported from the US, Its box-like construction and high, and not yet being produced in ift decrease rolling resistance Australia, is largely yielding and leg wastage. placa to

to a pneumatle-tyred model. Tho dollar situation precludes the purchase of U.S. equipment, amado

tho high-powered Tourna- by Le Tourneau (Aust) Pty. Ltd., is hauling ita wolght many times over on cons truation projects throughout the sterling are

One Man Unit

The tyres of the 10 feet 6 inchies archaro pompletely, protected by strongly-welded tyre guardu which cannot shear of In Lie rougliest conditionis. The design of the dich makes It onsy to handle the trac- tor amphg treo stumps.

Law Cost

Providing quick and efficent It is a self-propelled, one-man hauling at low cost, the logging mit with hauling speeds up to winch can be attached to any 14.0 miles an hour and a 100 tractor. Sturdily built of special- horse power diesel motor, Clutch-ly-hardened steel, it will stand up ontrolled, it also carries the into, almost any battering, Welded sortant bower control unit. Be steel deume hala af, ampla capacity), CAUSS

of its design, if in ex- of wire havling rope, and the high- tremely manoeuvrable. The mach-spood, gears:,sung in, an oil bath, ina's terrifle power is virtually Tha, main-frame- nd gearboxes

earth-moving equipment, they have done work equivalent to that of 20,000 with picks and shovels. When finished, this £A1,500,000 dam will impound 120,000 nere feet of the Hunter River, and irrigate 30,000. nerex,

Australia is in desperate need of increased population, and carth moving equipment is stimulating the development or many aresĄ sparsely settlul before the war,

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