PUNCTURE MATERIAL

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 59, 29 May 1942, Page 5

PUNCTURE MATERIAL

PICKINGS FROM THE ROADS MAGNETIC TRUCK'S HAUL Nails, bottle tops, scrap metal, tins, staples, wire—these are a few of the two-hund'red weight of metal collected from the Borough streets at the rate of 71bs to the mile, last Wednesday by the M.H.B. magnetic truck which 1 paid its first visit to Bay of Plenty. The county roads provided an even greater haul, no less than 91bs: of metal of all descriptions being picked up by the ingenius device. The truck itself wouldi fail to> attract any undue attention were it not for the large rear magnet which extends its full width and trails after it as conglomerate a collection of old iron as would gladden any hawker's heart. The switching olf of the current releases the load which is gathered, up and dumped in the carrier to add still further curios to the day's scavenging. The magnetic attraction is so great that it wall draw 7 a nail some live inches through a bed of loose metal.

The sight of the truck operating and the innumerable: puncture articles it collects makes motorists general I}' glciw with satisfaction and indeed makes, one, wonder how cars have managed to get 1 by with so few punctures in view of the amazing amount of metal on the roads.