WEIGHING A BUS.
MAGISTRATE A SPECTATOR. A sidelight of a traffic case heard in the Magistrate's Court was a test of the City Council's portable weighing machines. The testing was conducted this morning under the supervision of Mr. G. Hogan, chief traffic inspector, and Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., the magistrate dealing with the case.
Each machine, which is known as a "loadometer," weighs about 401b, and one is used under each wheel of the vehicle being weighed. The four machines are easily transportable in a motor car and have been used by the traffic departments for some years past for testing vehicles. Loadometers 'are not affected by uneven ground, and the weights recorded on each of the four dials are added up and the weight of the vehicle found.
A bus was first weighed on the large weighbridge on the wharves and then weighed on the loadometer.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 277, 22 November 1934, Page 21
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