MOVING A LIBRARY
30,000 ROOKS A DAY
LONDON, Oct. 17.
An unolitrusive triumph of organisation lies behind the successful transfer of the one and a half million volumes, documents and manuscripts to the new building of (he Cambridge University. Library. The work was undortaken,.,by a fleet of horse-drawn coal-carts, (he horses being- taken from the shafts of the loaded carts on arrival'and at once harnessed to empty ones—an econo,my impossible with motor lorries, *
It was calculated that 20,000 volumes could be moved each day. In the event, a rate of .10,000 a day was maintained.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18589, 27 December 1934, Page 10
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