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EN?GINERING ~EAT,
A moulnAIotiAoO feot of enginoring-.hs beon
snatisfactorily complelted t'theo itrood reels
mationworksl~ (Vio.), anmely, the bodily re.
moval of a bridge, 1311. wide by 6551f ill
nee, and woigig 87 toueA, a distannCeo of
2001., along the oannl to anothcr rot of piers
prepared for it.. The wori was dooo by
means of 10 locomotive liftiLn janorks, eaoh
cnpable of ricigr,2 tr, n, on?! with tiese let
into the piers the rntiro upersl trucetloro was
raised frol its reasting.place. A i'numbeor of
70ft. beamos wbre,.tlel laid Ilonig the course
of the renal, antl toseo were loed as rulneerr
to Olupport roloro, and the brideo ?was 8ot
moving along 1h1m towoards its nca silte by
tie prossuro from its further sihl of 12
nuzilary jacl:ks, nasinted ,y"' roipo haulage
throughl two Slpnishi wainchos, ono on onol
eido of the conatl, It Waes heklish wrk rito
lke? the rollersr on tie rnnera, but on an
aorage 15ft, of progres was uitedo every
day, and on Mondy 286ft, was covered; The
eniro transfer bean broon olfootod within a
feortlight, at an estimated saving of about
£160 on any other mode of chifting the
Itructure,
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