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Floating crane `Hikanui' unloading componants of a large truck crane, Auckland
Date: January 1980
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP-Cranes-01
Description: Auckland Harbour Board floating crane `Hikinui' unloading componants of a large 110-tonne hydraulic truck mounted mobile crane commissioned by Carlton Cranes Ltd. Photographed by an unknown photographer in January 1980. Published in the Evening Post 21 January 1980. Crane was made by a Pennsyvania company in 1979. It is being unloaded from the container ship `Tamara'. It was built to the specifications of the Auckland company and cost $600,000. It has a maximum lift of 110 tonnes, a maximum radius of 54 metres, and a fully extended height of over 70 metres. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 25.4 x 20.2 cm