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Figure 10-22. “D” type boiler details

ing up, there are always different degrees of assembly. packaged boiler or clearances into a building where the
When specifying a package water tube boiler an engineer owner wanted the boiler installed resulted in field erec-
has to explain very carefully what he calls a package. tion of those boilers. In the middle 1960’s boilermakers
There are also a lot of package boilers setting working for Power and Combustion felt they were in a
around that were not built in a factory, they were field contest to see if they could field erect more Combustion
erected. Problems of shipping clearances where a bridge Engineering package boilers than Combustion built in
or tunnel near a plant prevented delivery of a factory the factory. I don’t know if that was a close competition