ENGINE SMASH AT FLAXMILL.
DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £2OOO. A serious machinery breakdown rook place at Mr W. Petrie's flaxmill, on the riverbank. Foxton, on Monday morning. The main erank shaft attached to the 85-h.p. suction gasengine broke, carrying away the whole of the front part of the engine and bed. The six-ton flywheel, spinning al 18") revolutions a minute, crashed into the expansion box, scrubber and generator, with disastrous effect. which, however, broke its impetus and flight; otherwise it is probable thai it would have been hurtled through tlu? air to the adjoining mill, with results that can be better imagined than described. Fortunately no one was injured. The report of the crash was heard some considerable distance away. The break was probably due to a piece of faulty casting, which, in the process of time, had caused the metal to crystalise. - The engine is a complete- wreck, and Mr Pctrie assesses the loss at £2OOO.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 22 November 1920, Page 4
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