Kalline TE consisted of four divisions – Konapara, Magenta, Sandura and Boalcherra.
The garden was situated right up against the foot of the North Cachar /Mikir Hills as will be noted from the two photos titled ‘Kalline Tea Section’.
As the garden was placed so near the jungle clad hills, there was always a good population of wildlife ranging from tigers, leopards, elephants, monkeys, gibbons, civet cats, slow lorises, barking deer, sambhur, and of course a profusion of birds.
I was going to put the tractor picture as a Grey Ferguson, but I noted that the nameplate over the radiator is not that.
I suspect that it may have been one imported in KD form from the East Bloc and assembled in India – one particular make was Zetor which was of Czechoslovakia origin.
The Kalline factory engine room shows a small Tangye nearest to the camera and a small Blackstone just beyond it – these were used to generate the electrical power for the factory.
The standby engine was a Crossley HD10, and the main engine was a Crossley 2HH11 (twin cylinder). |