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GWR Routes: Banbury to Wolverhampton
GWR Routes: North Warwickshire Line
Moor Street Station: gwrms1215
View of one of the two Messrs Stothert & Pitt one ton
fixed cranes located in lower level shed 'B' for lifting goods from rail to
road or vice versa. They can raise or lower loads of one ton at an average
speed of 30 feet per minute and slue the load at a speed of two revolutions per
minute. The motors were supplied by the Electric Construction Company and the
controllers by Messrs Allen West & Company. The load can be lowered by a
hand brake or by using the motor as a brake, and the sluing motion is stopped
buy a pedal brake.
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