25-ton Trailer For Roads In Manawatu
— ■ ^ If the Trausport Department will sanction the movement of a Thornycroft. transporter over roads and bridges in the Manawatu Catchment Board 's area, the board will purchase it from a local flrm for tlie sum of £ 1 ."300. This was decided yesterday, it licing pointed out by Mr P. G. Evans, chief engineer of the board, that the vchicle weighed 25 tons wlien loaded with the drag line. the maximum weight on the back axle being l'l tons. The regulation axle load was about seven tons. The veliicle had been used on roads in the Manawatu and Wairarapa Provinees before but application for sanction of its use was now being made to the Trausport Department which had asked local counties for their opinion 011 the subject. H was advised that the Pohangina, Wanganui and llorowhenua Countv Counciis would objeet as they were tighting for reduced veliicle loads. ATr Evans said | it would probably be necessary to unload at severn] bridges and in some cascs gn Ihrougli streams,
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 July 1949, Page 7
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17325-ton Trailer For Roads In Manawatu Chronicle (Levin), 21 July 1949, Page 7
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