Abstract
AbstractThis survey is concerned with an overhead travelling crane installed in 1876 to service the boiler and plate fabrication shop of the Coburg Dockyard, part of the maintenance facility for the Port of Liverpool. The crane was recorded in 1982 as part of the work of the Merseyside Docklands Survey under Nancy Ritchie-Noakes.The crane is treated as a conventional archaeological artifact and is used to illustrate a particular instant within the general development of such cranes. In addition an attempt has been made to show how the design of the components reflected the technological environment of which they formed part, and the extent to which the scientific rationalisation of technology impinged upon the design.
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