Volume Six - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - Select Aspects - Reconstruction of Three Tips - 1912 - 17 . . .

this must be done after the plates, etc. are drilled and before any riveting is done. No other part of the work is to be painted before leaving the maker's works, and on no account must any boiled oil be applied to any part of the work.

During erection, any part of the work which at a later stage would become inaccessible must again be scraped, cleaned and painted with two coats of pure ground red lead in pure boiled linseed oil.

After the whole work has been erected it must be again scraped, cleaned, and then painted with two coats of red lead paint, and afterwards with two further coats of approved black oil paint.

The galvanized corrugated iron, after erection, is to be painted with three coats inside and out, as specified for the remainder of the iron and steel work.

Every part of the machinery, cylinders, rams, pistons, valves, and fittings subject to hydraulic pressure, shall be tested before erection to a hydraulic pressure of 2,500 lbs. per square inch, which test must be bourne without any of the parts shewing any signs of defect or leakage, the test to be carried in the presence of the Locomotive Superintendent or his Representative.

The Contractors to submit a general drawing of full dimensions of the tips, with all the necessary arrangements for working same, together with the approximate weight of the tip complete, before erection is commenced.

Detail drawings (in duplicate) of all parts of the work, both of the structure and machinery, must be of full dimensions, and made to a reasonable scale, and must be submitted for approval by the Company's Locomotive Superintendent before any work of the kind is put in hand.

When the Tips are completed, and before same are taken over by the Company, a complete set of detailed drawings, fully dimensioned, on tracing cloth, is to be supplied to the Company at the Contractor's own cost.

The Company will be prepared to supply the Contractors with hydraulic pressure water at 1s. per 1,000 gallons, for the purpose of erecting the tips ; the Contractor is to provide the means of measuring the water, subject to its being approved by the Company's Locomotive Superintendent.