Also the ones at Claughton Brick works were called pylons by the works
manager when last visited
Graham Brooks
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>Date: 16/04/2012 15:19
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>Subj: Re: [mining-history] Aerial Ropeways
>
>The ropeway posts on Dunfell, Cumbria were referred to as 'pylons'.
>
>Richard Smith
>
>
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>From: "David Kitching" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 3:03 PM
>Subject: Re: Aerial Ropeways
>
>
>On 16 Apr 2012 at 12:48, Jenny Hall wrote:
>
>> What word or term do people use for the uprights that support
the
>> rope/wire
>> in an aerial ropeway? I personally prefer stanchion but the
Ordnance
>> Survey seem to use standard, and I have also seen trestle, tower.
>
>
>In his 1898 and 1911 editions of his book 'Aerial or Wire Ropeways
their
>construction and management', A. J. Wallis-Tayler refers to them as
posts or
>standards.
>
>In the Engineering Times special issue of April-May 1899 W. T. H.
Carrington
>refers to them as posts whilst J. Pearce Roe calls them trestles. R.
E
>Commans
>calls them supports and J Walwyn White of the Widnes based ropeway
>manufacturer R White & Sons calls them standards.
>
>They are called supports by William Hewitt in 'The Bleichert System of
wire
>rope tramways', published in 1903 in the USA. Also the USA, the
Hallidie
>Endless Wire Ropeway catalogue of 1902 refers throughout to towers.
The
>Trenton Iron Company calls them posts in 1890.
>
>Charle F. Dwyer in the June 1975 paper, 'Aerial Tamways, Ski Lifts,
and
>Tow -
>Description and Terminology' refers to towers. 'The design of the
tower
>provides the basis for classification and description. If the main
support
>members are outside the wire ropes and the carriers pass through the
>structure, it is a portal type. If the cables and the carriers pass
on
>either side of
>the main support member, it is a mast type or pylon'.
>
>Robert A.Trennert's 2001 book, 'Riding The High Wire - Aerial Tramways
In
>The West', uses Tower throughout.
>
>Having considered all the above, the genral usage in the UK trends
towards
>Posts and Standards, whilst in the USA the most popular usage seems to
be
>Towers. There is clearly no definitive standard! :-))
>
>Cheers,
>
>David Kitching
>
>
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