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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19601, 5 April 1938, Page 2

The heavy manual labour needed in constructing and maintaining New Zealand's telegraph and telephone lines will be made easier and much more speedy when six winch trucks now under 'construction in the Wellington workshops of the Post and Telegraph Denartment are completed. The full oower of the six-cylinder engine normally designed for propelling ■ ;, e ... uc -. c ,; ; a t a touch of a lever, be diverted to'the running of a specially constructed winch mounted on the chassis as oart of the permanent equipment. Though powerful, a winch when out of use, will take only a few feet of the deck space of this self-con-tained engineering unit, which will carry to the job all the wire cab e, tools and Doles and then do the heaviest of the lifting.