Nepal, June 28 -- 1955
Nepal's Draft Five-Year Plan contemplated the construction of a new ropeway with a carrying capacity of 20 tons per hour between Kathmandu to Hetauda or to Amlekhganj to replace the one commissioned in 1922 by Chandra Shumsher Rana between Dhursing and Matatirtha and built by British engineers.
May 1957
The US Government agreed to grant $2 million for constructing a ropeway from Kathmandu to Hetauda with Nepal to chip in Rs1.2 million.
1959
A contract between Riblet Tramways of Spokane, Washington and Nepal was signed in Washington on 19 April. Steel towers were fabricated in the US and carried to the sites in pieces for assembly. Long lengths of steel cable were hauled up mountains by porters. It was the most techn...