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Monday 23 March 2015

Grain elevator built for harbour of Rotterdam, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Het Vader land dated 13 March 1939

An item reported that the Dutch shipyard N.V. Verschure &Co. Scheepswerf en Machinefabriek at Amsterdam, Netherlands as ordered by the N.V. Graanelevator Maatschappij at Rotterdam, Netherlands to built a new modern floating gain elevator. She was to be fitted out with as a diesel-electric engine aggregate as the first grain elevator of the world, completely electric welded and with the latest technique in pneumatics and overloading of grain.