GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Small Heath and Sparkbrook Station: gwrsh3218

Close up photographs of components of the 20 ton electrically powered travelling gantry crane installed at Small Heath down goods yard in early 1925. The photographs show:

            1) The Heywood resistance cabinet
            2) Details of the resistors
            3) The cage winding system

This drawing accompanied an article published in ‘The Engineer’ dated 12th June 1925, which has been reproduced at Small Heath and Sparkbrook Station's 20-Ton Goliath Crane.

Robert Ferris

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