Show lifting grain by suction at the Mill wall docks london a new nev installation handling and storing appliances has recently been beca put to work including pneumatic elevators which draw grain out of the hold bold ot of a ship at the rate of 73 15 tons an hour for each elevator four work simultaneously each dipping dl ping into a separate hold the grain Is lifted through flexible pipes to an elevation ot of SO feet band conveyors elec tribally tri cally driven having a total length of two and one nilles i ios carry tile tho grain to the gr granary allary on oil the quay youths co companion iii anion |