Peele's "Mining Engineers@ Handbook" (Publishers John Wiley & Sons, printed
in USA) calls the ropeway supports "Towers".
My copy (Third Edition, Tenth printing, Sept 1963) mentions on page 26-41
the ropeway belonging to the Indian Copper
Corporation (ICC) at Chota Nagpur, India, where I worked as a shiftboss in
the underground mine from 1958-60. The ropeway
took crushed ore from the Mosaboni copper mine across country to the
Ghatsila smelter. Peele describes it as a 31,050 foot
mono-cable tramway over rolling country, with one angle station to make a
normal crossing to the [Subarnareka] river with
a single span of 975 feet.
The original maker (1928) was Ropeways Ltd of 152 Great Portland Street,
London. By the 1950s the ropeway spares came
from British Ropeway Engineering Co of High Holborn (BRECO).
Thinking of leaving Indian Copper at the end of my 3-year tour, I wrote to
BRECO asking about job prospects, oblivious of
the fact that BRECO and ICC used the same banking agents in Calcutta. BRECO
contacted the Calcutta office, and in a matter
of days ICCs Burra Sahib, General Manager "Tiny" Hill, said "I hear you have
asked BRECO for a job". I knew then that, come
what may, I would not be asked to stay on for another tour!
Tony Brewis
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