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Volume 23, Issue 3
1 March 1971
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Review Article| March 01 1971

Moving a 250‐ton Storage Tank by Flotation

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5775
Print ISSN: 0036-8792
© MCB UP Limited
1971
Industrial Lubrication and Tribology (1971) 23 (3): 112.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb052974

TWO 100‐ft. diameter, 250‐ton storage tanks at the Stanlow Refinery of Shell U.K. Ltd. at Ellesmere Port, have been re‐located by hover flotation —a new and unique service provided by Mears Bros. (Contractors) Ltd., 154/158 Sydenham Road, London, S.E.26, in association with Air Cushion Equipment Ltd., Southampton.

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