. Water & sewage works . vehicles, working threeshifts a day. The sand and gravel arrivein barges at the dock on the East river,where a crane and scoop unload theminto hoppers having chutes. An averageof only 16 seconds is required for load-ing five cubic yards of sand and 2% min-utes for loading the same quantity ofgravel. A photograph shows the methodsof loading from hopper and with grabbuckets. The trucks have rear dumping bodiesand discharge their loads thru an open-ing level with the street surface. Dump-ing occupies about three or four minutes. Entirely apart from the use of motortrucks
. Water & sewage works . vehicles, working threeshifts a day. The sand and gravel arrivein barges at the dock on the East river,where a crane and scoop unload theminto hoppers having chutes. An averageof only 16 seconds is required for load-ing five cubic yards of sand and 2% min-utes for loading the same quantity ofgravel. A photograph shows the methodsof loading from hopper and with grabbuckets. The trucks have rear dumping bodiesand discharge their loads thru an open-ing level with the street surface. Dump-ing occupies about three or four minutes. Entirely apart from the use of motortrucks for simple transportation of ma-terials in contract work, the power ve-hicle lends itself admirably to many spe-cial purposes. The power plant whichit possesses is frequently used for auxili-ary power purposes in ways that are im-possible with horse-drawn vehicles. In street and road construction it hasbeen found especially useful in applyingcrude oil and tar preparations to the sur-faces. The Locomobile, Knox and Inter-. MOTOR-DRIVEX STREET SPRINKLER with nozzles in front, preventing dust rais-ing by uheels of the machine. Can sprinkle SO feet width. Photograph is ofmachine in operation in Denver, Colorado. July 1913 MOTOR TRUCKS IN MUNICIPAL CONTRACTING »
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