CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889 — Page 34

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Cless,

and they unforan me that

a machine could be arranged which

world expect the object in view.

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It would have two so ton rollers.

combined with an iron buttice

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frame, extending well above &f the water level, upon which a platform would be placed to Carry the Engine, boren and

e gearing

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a water ballest tank

being provided to afford the

requisite weight

(

the rollers-

Secure Avrling & Porter have Looked asinto the metter with

one to a auspicient extent to ~Ahmonstrate the practicability

wther

and satisfactory working such machines, and I that their cost would be between £1500 and £2,000 each, delivered

ob in London. One at ruch

Fors.

All

and in prospers would

be required.

Course

In this connection I may

observe that experience in the

passage of heavy setting machines

over mounds

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this theraeter has

Drown or that considerable

Consobiilation

the uubble may

be effected, and subsidence of

the wall after construction be prevented it a

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corresponding degree,

at no great cat per foot rum The work, by the alloption of zomne zneh molle o procedime

procedi

as that ineriatees above.

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Looking at the length of

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the

proposed work, and the undoubted benefit that would result from

the consolidation are to the Clow passage of

such a

weight

over the mound prior to placing

the

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