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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 4 (July 2, 1934.)

Mechanical Appliances

Mechanical Appliances.

In the handling of goods traffic, it is remarkable how extensively mechanical appliances are now employed in Britain. Freight is no longer laboriously moved to the loading crane in warehouses and yards; instead, mobile cranes are speedily moved into position alongside the goods, and the transfer to or from wagon made in a few minutes. Handbarrowing in goods stations has been replaced to a large extent by the employment of petrol-driven trucks, and experiments are now being made with moving platforms. In city collection and delivery services, horses and carts still have their use, but by degrees motor trucks and tractors are replacing horses.