GETTING RID OF SNOW
Every winter Great Britain’s street sweepers have been faced with the long and arduous task of throwing snow into carts and removing it several miles from the towns to bo dumped. Even so, traces of the falls have lingered for weeks afterwards at 1 the sides of the roads. Much expense and trouble would be saved if a new German process were introduced. Mobile tanks now appear in (certain German towns after snow has fallen. The snow, when shovelled into these, is rapidly melted by coke fires, and then poured down the nearest drain. By this means a street can be entirely cleared of snow in less than half an hour. Bome tanks are also equipped with an apparatus resembling a pain ter’s blowpipe. Upon the tank being : wheeled along a street the s.iow is 1 melted in gutters before it has a chance I tu turn into “slush.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 147, 24 June 1931, Page 9
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153GETTING RID OF SNOW Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 147, 24 June 1931, Page 9
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