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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

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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