Wire Tramways.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 41, 24 August 1870, Page 7

Wire Tramways.

iere is now exhibiting on the Brighton nsa wire tramway five miles in length, erfect working order. Tt illustrates mmense advantage of tins singularly > and effective method, whereby, as a t to railways or maritime transit, s, minerals, and agricultural produce be conveyed. The difficulties encoun--lat Brighton are peculiar. The line nt in two places at right angles, and > are curves and serious undulations lie most trying character. In the th of five miles, there are a 112 suping posts. The rope is of charcoal- , towo inches in circumference. The box« run their course of five miles bout !fi hour. It is a IG-horse engine o)i sets the whole in motion. The line ipable of delivering 240 tons per day ten hours. The endless wire rope, ph. is the characteristic of the system, plported on a series of pulleys carried substantial posts, which are ordinarily Ifeet apart. Where necessary, a longer ie, say 1,000 feet, may be taken. Lt end of the line the rope passes round urn, driven by whatever power is used, (.rate of from four to eight miles an r. The boxes currying the load are | I* on the rope at. the loading fnd by ms of a special attachment which en?s it to pass the pulleys and posts with feet ease; the boxes carry from one cwt. ten cwt. each; the delivery is at the 3of one hundred boxes per hour. The ling and discharging arrangements, like proportions of the lines themselves, . be varied to any extent, to suit the uirements of any particular district. ;re are lines at present in course of coniction in Peru, New Zealand, Brazil, ly, Sweden, and Barking Creek. As aparcd with other modes of transit, the tis remarkably small. In the colonies 1 foreign countries the system promises be of most extensive application.