PULLED 19 TONS WITH TEETH
In the goods yard of the Portland Railway Station, 26 year old' Alexander Marshall, a dockyard crane driver, pulled three goods wagons, weighing just over 19 tons, a distance of 50 feet with his teeth. Marshall, a handsome young giant 6ft. tall and broadly built, did this at the fifth attempt. He slipped off his web belt, hooked it to the wagon coupling, put his teeth into the middle of it and began to pull. Four times he moved the three wagons about a foot and then, at the fifth attempt he pulled them over two wagon lengths. Facing the crowd he shouted with a broad smile, “I have done it.” Marshall has broken the British record with a left-hand dead lift of 4461 b. broken a 6in. nail in seven seconds, lifted a girl on scales—a weight of 1301 b.—with his little finger, and supported a quarter of a ton of stone on his chest.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 75, 20 January 1947, Page 8
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161PULLED 19 TONS WITH TEETH Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 75, 20 January 1947, Page 8
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