ROAD SURFACE WEAKNESSES
25-TON VEHICLES FOR TESTS (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 29. Twenty-five-ton juggernauts will be used by the National Roads Board to locate weak spots in the country’s highways. The board took delivery of the first one yesterday. The juggernaut consists of four sft tyres in line, housed independently in steel boxes. Seven feet high, 20ft long, and Bft wide, the vehicle will be towed along the roads, leaving depressions where weak spots occur in the bitumen ox- the foundation beneath it. “It will make stronger roads faster and Better than anything we have got,” said the highways engineer attached to the National Roads Board (Mr L. C. E. Malt?. Seventeen other juggernauts will be built. Each one built here will save New Zealand 6500 dollars in hard currency.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27698, 30 June 1955, Page 7
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