CRANE CAPSIZES.
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 9. While undergoing weight tests at the Hobson Street wharf about 9 o’clock this morning the new Harbour Board mobile crane capsized a.nd finished up with its wheels in the'air and the crane arm at the bottom of the harbour with two tons of test ! weights attached. I The driver jumped clear just in time [to escape injury. Oil and petrol pourled on to the wharf from the overturned truck. The Harbour Board’s floating crane Mahua hoisted the crane arm and test weights from the harbour and restored the capsized crane to its normal position on the wharf. Apart from the slight banding of an angle iron the crane was noi damaged.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 137, 10 May 1940, Page 8
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119CRANE CAPSIZES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 137, 10 May 1940, Page 8
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