A Digging Machine.
4 The New York "Press says that an American digging machine for quick trench construction, which lias recently been invented may prove a real factor in bringing war to a speedy/' close. A Maryland contractor undertook to dig a sewer for a small municipality, and immediately installed one of the newmachines, which (was said to ho able to dig a thousand feet a day of ditch of required depth and witlth. After the machine got well at work somebody 'saw it, and -wondered why the soldiers in the field should dig trendies when one of these monsters could in a day, scoop ou>t enough to protest .a regiment. It is said that the entire output of the manufactory making these machines has been engaged by one of the warring Powers in Europe.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 July 1915, Page 2
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135A Digging Machine. Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 July 1915, Page 2
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