THREE MILES A DAY
BRITISH ENGINEERS’ TRIUMPH. Blasting their way up a mountain track under the shadow of the snowcapped Himalayas, British engineers have just succeeded in installing in Chamba, Northern India, a complete hydro-electric station from Great Britain. Chamba, 200 miles from the borders of Tibet, is 3,000 feet up among the mountains and the transport of the plant, especially over the last twentyfive miles of track, has been a triumph for the engineers and their native carriers. Great boulders had to be dynamited' bridges strengthened, retaining walls made secure. Gangs of native workers worked continuously on road repairs throughout the journey. Turbine casing, pipe lines and other heavy pieces were constructed to make light loads and a fleet of wooden trolleys built to ease the hazards of carriage yet the transport rate of the heavier machinery was three miles a day.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1941, Page 7
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