Volume One - Into the Victorian Age - The official opening of the docks . . .
The whole of the Valuable and Extensive PLANT, used in the construction of the Penarth Docks, which have recently been completed, and comprising several locomotive and stationary engines, steam pile engines and appliances, pile engines, chains and monkeys, iron trussed gantries and machinery for lifting, steam mortar mill, mortar pug mills, steam saw mill, with saws, heads and machinery ; pumps of various kinds to be worked by steam and hand power, a large number of double and single-purchase crabs, chains and sling blocks, blacksmith's forges, troughs, bellows, anvils, and tools of every description ; iron and wooden blocks, double and treble sheave, capable of lifting great weights, a large quantity of temporary rails and crossings, ditto of cast and wrought iron wheels, axles, and pedestals ; a quantity of iron, in bars, bolts, rods, sheets, &c. ; iron rollers, chains, & c. for inclines ; spikes, nails, screws, files, and other ironmongery ; Pooley's weighing machines, scales, weights, &c. ; engine, signal and other lamps ; a large quantity of new and old Memel, Dantzig, English oak and elm timber, in billet, slabs, planks, poles, &c. ; a very large number of sleepers, iron earth waggons and wooden ditto, permanent ballast and timber trucks, dobbin carts, ordinary carts, numerous sets of harness, box horses, trestles, &c., timber dingy, four-wheeled trap, gutta percha, in sheets, tubes, washers, &c. ; temporary buildings consisting of a long range of stabling, storehouses, and portable offices, office furniture, &c., together with other contractor's requisites, too numerous to particulate, and comprising all the essentials for the carrying out of contracts on the largest scale. |
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