. Canadian machinery and metalworking (January-June 1913). stringers. Thelatter, spaced at 3 ft. centres, are bedd-ed in cinders. The building runs eastand west and has six roof monitorsrunning at right angles to this direc-tion. The reason for the latter featurelies in the fact that the building willeventually be extended in a northerlydirection and the monitors will thenform the principal source of light forthe centre of the shop; hence the im-portance of having them run east andwest. Each of the roof trusses in this shophas been designed to carry two 5-tonair hoists and there are also three
. Canadian machinery and metalworking (January-June 1913). stringers. Thelatter, spaced at 3 ft. centres, are bedd-ed in cinders. The building runs eastand west and has six roof monitorsrunning at right angles to this direc-tion. The reason for the latter featurelies in the fact that the building willeventually be extended in a northerlydirection and the monitors will thenform the principal source of light forthe centre of the shop; hence the im-portance of having them run east andwest. Each of the roof trusses in this shophas been designed to carry two 5-tonair hoists and there are also three linesof beam runways running longitudinallyand equipped with 3-ton chain addition there is a 15 ft. runway for four 3-ton hand operated travelers onthe north side of the shop. This structural shop contains all theheavy machines, as will be later detail-ed. frames and large steel sash south side is of brick up to the win-dow sills, but the other three sides aremerely covered in with corrugatedsheeting to allow of future FIG. 2. VIEW OF STOCK YARD AND EAST END OF STRUCTURAL SHOP. Girder Shop. The third building forms the girdershop and stands between, and to thewest of, the other two. Like the struc-tural shop, it has self-supporting steel This shop measures 260 x 63 ft., with32 ft. 6 in. of head room under thetrusses. It is served by two 30-tonRoyce 3-motor traveling cranes of 59 , in addition to which a runway has
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