LOADING RAILWAY TRUCKS.
LABOUR-SAVING MACHINE. OAMARU, August 6. John MacPherson, of Oamaru, has com* pleted negotiations with the Government for the purchase from him of an appliance for the Railway Department to facilitate loading bags of grain, potatoes, coal, lime, etc., into railway trucks. Tha appliance hooks on to the bide of the truck, and can be attached or detached in a moment. Used in connection with the ordinary bag-lifter it will be found invaluable at railway stations, especially when trucks are scarce during the height of the grain season, or when there is a rush at stations to get produce avay to a steamer. Mr A. Grant, (late Traffic Superintendent) and Mr H. Macraidrew (District Railway Engineer), by direction of the Minister of Railways, watched an exhibition of the machine working, and 1 were greasy struck with the ease with which the "bags were quickly loaded into trucks from the ground. They reported favourably on the invention. It is understood to be the intention of the Railway Department to have a. number made, and one olaced at different stations where much produce is. trucked, lor c."id benefit of fanners.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 11 August 1909, Page 3
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190LOADING RAILWAY TRUCKS. Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 11 August 1909, Page 3
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