Leylands Used on Dam Building
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I EYLAND heavy-duty vehicles .1-4 assembled in Sydney are being employed in large numbers on dam construction in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales. If Australia's population should exceed lOrn., food might have to be imported, but a supply of water from the mountains would help to mitigate this contingency.
One fleet operates from Sydney carrying general stores and supplies to Cooma, the base of the Snowy Moun tains-project. Beaver tractors are being used with platform semi-trailers and " jinkers " for the carriage of lengths of timber or steel. Comet vehicles with refrigerated van bodies carry perishable foodstuffs.
Other vehicles based at Coorna carry materials to the dam sites. Hippos with flat platforms haul various supplies, and vehicles of this type are used to tow low-loading trailers bearing heavy machinery.