METAL SUPPLIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1920, Page 2

METAL SUPPLIES.

NEW CRUSHING PLANT IN OPERATION. Messrs. Kyngdon and Cox have Just Installed a very complete and up-to-date atone crushing plant at the Waiwakaiho, which should do a good deal towards providing a continual supply of first-class shingle for either loading or building purposes. The site of the plant is on the borough side of the river, just att the top of Paynter's Avenue, where the firm has a freehold block of several acres, and has acquired shingle right over a portion of the river. New and up-to-date machinery has been installed, which is operated by electric motors, and capable of turning out 00 cubic yards of metal per day, crushed to six different sizes If required. To place themselves in a position to supply readily either town or country orders, this enterprising ttrm has also added to its plant a 40-h.p. Thornycroft dump motor wagon, capable of transporting four cubic yards of metal at each loading. The truck, which is just out of the shoo, has been fitted with a body, by the firm of R. S Wooldrldge, electrical and mechanical engineer, sir. Wooldrldge's patent lifting attachment having been fixed to the machine. As has been stated before, this requires no adjustment of the mechanism of the motor, and it has several advantages over other dump trucks, in that the operation of elevating and lowering the truck can be performed while the machine is in motion, without changing gears, and while going forward or backing. There is a distinct advantage In spreading metal. The I dumping and spreading can even be done with perfect safety without anyone being on, the machine. Once she is started she will run along, gradually wising the truck, which automatically cuts out the motor when it reaches its maximum elevation, and the machine conies to a standstill. Incidentally, it may bo mentioned that this particular truck is the first of five which Mr. Wooldridge has to turn out, tho others being one each to the order of tho Wanganui and Hawke's Bay County Councils, and two for iManiikau. He also has on hand at prosent four other trucks (two Thonrycrofts, a Republic, and an Albion), to which his patent lifting apparatus Is being fitted.