MECHANICAL EXCAVATOR.
THE MAKING OF A ROAD. The formation of new streets under the Government Housing Scheme is taking place from Tararua Street and running into two branches into Cornwall Street, of 37 chains. This work is being undertaken by Mr. F. B. Gray, contractor, Bannister Street, Masterton, with a mechanical shovel which lifts three-quarters of a yard of spoil at a time into lorries.
This excavator was built by Priestman at Hull, England, and all the lorries working on the job are British manufacture. The excavator is powered by a Ford industrial petrol engine, and is the first of its kind in the Masterton district. Mr. Gray has the excavator available to undertake all kinds of road formation and widening, for sewerage drainage, all classes of farm drainage, such as preparing for tile draining, excavating . and cleaning open drains, widening river trenches and building stop banks. Being fitted with caterpillars, the machine can be taken almost anywhere. *
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1938, Page 11
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158MECHANICAL EXCAVATOR. Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1938, Page 11
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