NEW USE FOR TRAINS
| SPRAYING* WEEDS. The railway is by no means at an end of its career; it may be just beginning, says a London newspaper., : Have you seen the weed-killer train? You may have seen it if you live in the Birkenhead and Chester districts or in the Highlands of Scotland.. The train consists of an engine, a brake van, and a waggon fitted with a large tank and a spraypipe. i The tank holds a chemical weed-killer, and as the train passes over a, section of line where weeds are growing a man riding in the waggon brings the spray into use. The L.M.S. is experimenting with these vehicles, for in some parts of the country weeds grow rapidly. This seems to be an efficient and economic method of dealing witfi the trouble.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 11045, 20 February 1933, Page 3
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