Tractor’s Long Journey
One of the most powerful 8 am. yesterday ls expected to be a week’s journey to Costing about £30,000, the giant bulldozer will be engaged on a Im cubic' yard contract at the Ohai open-cast coal mine. The machine weighs 42 tons and has two diesel engines capable of developing 425 horsepower. When the first leg Of the journey ended last night, the transporter was about 40 miles north of Oamaru. Today it will set off on the second stage just after T
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29335, 14 October 1960, Page 15
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