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Fun Fact: Image from page 6 of “S.A. mining and engineering journal” (1891)

21 May 2020 by My Durban

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Image from page 6 of “S.A. mining and engineering journal” (1891)
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Identifier: v22p1saminingeng1096joha
Title: S.A. mining and engineering journal
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors:
Subjects: Mineral industries Mining industry and finance Mines and mineral resources
Publisher: Johannesburg
Contributing Library: Gerstein – University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Text Appearing Before Image:
RSHALL SQUARE BVILDINQS. 0PPU8ITE MAIN BNTRANCB STOCK BXCHANQB. Telephone tOH. P.O. Boi 3960. TelepboDc No. 877. BATTEN & EDGAR, k THE RAND BOILER, TANK AND IRON WORKS. Steel Cyanide Tanks, Chimneys, Cones. Skips and all Mining Plate Work a speciality. I Works:Anderson, Gold & Albert Streets, CITY AND SUBURBAN. iUSl BECAUSE A Casting or Forging is Broken is noreason for throwing it away. SEND IT TO US FOR REPAIR OXY – ACETYLENEWELDING PLANT. We have Expert Operators, a CompleteEquipment and turn out … First=Class Work. South African General Electric Co., P.O. Box 1905. Telephone 4321. BritanniaEngineering (FRANCIS BELL). Co* (• J- CRESWICK). General & Mechanical Engineers, IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS,BOILER AND GENERAL SMITHS. Repairs and Renetmls promptly and efficiently executed.Sole makeri of the Heftm Patent Pendulum Pump. 166, Main Street, and 164, Fox Street,Box 1658 JOHAIMIMESBURG. Phone 896. .LJiMiii.^lMM-. S,|.i ?_><. l!H-_ THE SOUTH AFRICAN MININO JOURXAL

Text Appearing After Image:
ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS sail homewards from Durbanevery Thursday, aud from Capetown every Wednesday afternoon,calling at Madeira. INTERMEDIATE STEAMERS are despatched each week forEngland via Las Palmas or Teneriffe) taking passengers at lowerrate« than by the Mail Steamers. Calls are made at Lobito Bay,St. Helena and Ascension at stated intervals. EAST COAST SERVICE.—Monthly sailings homewards viaEast Coast Ports and the Suez Canal, calling at Delagoa Bay,Beira, Chinde, Mozambique, Port Amelia, Zanzibar, Mombasa(Kilindini), Aden. Port Sudan, Suez, Port Said, Naples, Marseilles,and Gibraltar for London. This service both outwards and home- UnionCastleLine. Sslllnp betweenSouth Africa andthe United Klnj-dom by theWestemRoute (via Madeiraand the Canary Is-lands), and by theElastero Routt viaSueii. wards connects at Natal with the Mail Service via the WesternRoute. Passengers embarking at Durban and proceeding overlandfrom Marseilles to England, can effect the journey in about 30 dayi MAU

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