CONTENTS
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VII: BURTONING
Cargo Hoists—Comparison of Cargo Hoists with Quay Cranes—
Alternative Burtoning System—Winches—Quay Cranes and
Ship’s Gear used in combination—Quay Cranes and Ship's
Gear worked in team.
VIII. CONVEYORS AND ELEVATORS .
Types of Conveyors—Gravity Conveycrs—The Elevator-Conveyor
— The Runner Rail—Stacking or Piling Machines—The Shoot.
[X. TRUCKING .
Hand-Trucking—Mechanical Trucking—The Elevator Truck—
Tractors and Trailers— Batteries and Charging.
X. LIGHTERAGE :
Importance of Lighterage—Types of Lighters and Barges—Wharf-
age Charges on Lighters—New type of Thames barge.
XI. CoAL HANDLING .
Variety of Interests—Typical British Coal Wagons—Systems of
Coal Handling—Barge Hoists—American Coaling Piers—The
Curtis Bay Coaling Pier, Baltimore—Mechanical Trimmers
— Virginian Railway Coal Pier—Coal Bunkering—The Coal
Bunkering Machine—Coal Imports.
XII. ORE HANDLING . .
The Grab Unloader—Grabs with Cranes, or Transporters—The
Lifting Magnet.
XIII. GRAIN CARGOES
Grain Imports—The Bucket Elevator—The Pneumatic Elevator—
Pneumatic Elevator Design—The Dust Difficulty— Rotary
E xhausters.
XIV. REFRIGERATED PRODUCE
Frozen Meat— Distant Delivery—P1e-cooling—Food Investigation
Board Revort—Insulation.
XV. FueL OIL
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Pumps and Mains—Oil Depots.
XVI. WHOLE TIMBER CARGOES.
Conveyors—Cranes.
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