MOBILE CAR CRUSHER
Each year in Britain about 400,000 vehicles are scrapped, and disposal of them is becoming a big problem. Recently the chairman of the Leyland Motor Corporation (Sir William Black) set in motion the largest mobile car-crusher in the world, which is hauled by a sixwheeled A.E.C. “Mammoth,” and will be operated throughout Britain. The crusher weighs about 50 tons and is 70ft long. It c?n crush and bundle two car bodies every three minutes, each car emerging as a block of steel Ilin by 22in by 24in. The steel is melted down and .can be used to make more Icars or for other goods.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30976, 4 February 1966, Page 11
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107MOBILE CAR CRUSHER Press, Volume CV, Issue 30976, 4 February 1966, Page 11
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