"MAN-KILLING TRUCK"
A man-killing truck is the newest odd j requirement in the movies The vehicle, used for scenes in Richard Dix s new RKO Radio film “Twelve Crowded Hours.” /as made by bolting and welding additional cross-bumpers and uprights on the front of a highspeed. heavy duty truck belonging to the studio The script calls for this unwicldly but effective machine to be used by a gang leader to “rub out" his enemies. Capable of a speed of 60 miles an hour, the truck follows a taxi or private car and at an opportune moment crashes into the other vehicle and flattens it and its unlucky occupants against the nearest building.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 15 April 1939, Page 4
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