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 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: Billingham Bypass 1943

Chris Capewell
 Post subject: Re: Billingham Bypass 1943
Posted: 09 Aug 2016, 13:35 

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901718 went to Darlington ( P Tatlow ) so that might be suggested as the 45 tonner. ( CS6872 )

 Forum: Breakdown Cranes Overseas   Topic: Australian War Memorial photos

Chris Capewell
Posted: 20 Jul 2016, 13:51 

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AWM have been scanning some more cranes....... https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/H03692/ Belgium. The caption states disabled which is something of an understatement . I need to look closer at the reeving and rigging before working out manufacturer. Anyone else care to differentiate the ( three? ) p...

 Forum: Breakdown Cranes Overseas   Topic: WW1 Photo of Cowans Sheldon Crane in Egypt

Chris Capewell
Posted: 15 Jul 2016, 15:08 

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AWM have been scanning some more cranes....... https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/H03692/ Belgium. The caption states disabled which is something of an understatement . I need to look closer at the reeving and rigging before working out manufacturer https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/H03679/ The capti...

 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: Cravens BDC at Hull

Chris Capewell
 Post subject: Re: Cravens BDC at Hull
Posted: 13 Jul 2016, 13:08 

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Quite amazing in that there are three breakdown cranes present. I am surprised no other photographs of such a coming together are known. In the foreground is the Hull MPD Cravens; behind it a lattice jibbed Cowans Sheldon and at right another; unidentified. Date uncertain but there was a lot of acti...

 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: Cravens BDC at Hull

Chris Capewell
 Post subject: Cravens BDC at Hull
Posted: 12 Jul 2016, 16:31 

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Sorry about the length of the http ref.!! Its in this website - http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections/ search on Inward Yard Locomotive Crane http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections/collections/search-results/image.php?keywordsorig=locomotive&titleorig=&personorig=&placeorig=&...

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: New crane for UK

Chris Capewell
 Post subject: Re: New crane for UK
Posted: 21 Mar 2016, 15:41 

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99 70 9319 013-7 (Kirow Multi-Tasker 1200 UK) international number with a code limiting it to Britain
Not sure if its through the tunnel yet.

 Forum: Breakdown Cranes Overseas   Topic: BDCs have been used at DB Bad Albing accident

Chris Capewell
Posted: 11 Feb 2016, 14:30 

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The recovery of regional trains in Bad Aibling is progressing. The wedged trains are severed and then recovered in parts at the accident site in Bad Aibling. Two special cranes from Fulda ( new Kirow crane type "multitasker 1200". ) and Leipzig are present. The emergency cranes have a lift...

 Forum: Breakdown Cranes Overseas   Topic: Camion contre train à Beuveille : le relevage des wagons

Chris Capewell
Posted: 17 Jan 2016, 17:37 

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SNCF actually used their one and only breakdown crane...............


http://www.republicain-lorrain.fr/faits ... s-en-cours

 Forum: Military Breakdown Cranes   Topic: Cowans Sheldon breakdown crane(s) at work in 1945

Chris Capewell
Posted: 16 Jan 2016, 15:09 

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Revisiting these sites I note that on the second 'Ammo accident' page, photo bottom left, that they'd toppled one CS 45 tonner and had had to summon another.

 Forum: Technical Matters   Topic: Cowans and Sheldon drawings

Chris Capewell
Posted: 19 Dec 2015, 14:46 

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Peter, Have Cumbria Archives started a comprehensive scanning of drawings?; or was this a request by yourself for drawings of the particular machine? What sort of costs were involved? When I first visited them they hadn't even sorted and indexed the drawings which were stored in an industrial unit n...
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