A POWERFUL TRENCH-DIGGER AT WORK ON THE WESTERN FRONT. The French army's big trench-digging tractors, in action somewhere along the western front, doing the work of hundreds of men. They creep slowly ehead, cutting a ditch of the desired depth, and throwing up a mound of loose earth on either side, one of which is then reinforced with sandbags and quickly made a substantial parapet. Apparatus of similar type has for years been used to dig trenches for 6ewere, water-mains,- and telephone conduits. The point of interest lies in the way the machine has been assembled to meet the needs encountered on the battlefied.— Popular Mechanics.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3291, 11 April 1917, Page 32 (Supplement)
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106A POWERFUL TRENCH-DIGGER AT WORK ON THE WESTERN FRONT. The French army's big trench-digging tractors, in action somewhere along the western front, doing the work of hundreds of men. They creep slowly ehead, cutting a ditch of the desired depth, and throwing up a mound of loose earth on either side, one of which is then reinforced with sandbags and quickly made a substantial parapet. Apparatus of similar type has for years been used to dig trenches for 6ewere, water-mains,- and telephone conduits. The point of interest lies in the way the machine has been assembled to meet the needs encountered on the battlefied.— Popular Mechanics. Otago Witness, Issue 3291, 11 April 1917, Page 32 (Supplement)
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