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8 M.P.G. ON CANE COLLECTION

12th December 1958
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COVERING almost 23.000 miles a month, 10 Albion Reiver three-axled 10-tonners working on a 5,300-acre sugar plantation on the northern part of the coast of Natal, South Africa. transport nearly 80.000 tons of cane a year and average over 8 m.p.g. Most of the going is over cane debris and rough tracks.

Each vehicle is hand-loaded with two 5-ton bundles of cane secured by chains, and is driven about eight miles to the sugar mill of Melville Sugar Estates, where the cane is unloaded by crane. Short-haulage work is performed by seven farm tractors, each of which tows two trailers.

The tonnage mentioned is about a third of the total ground at the company's mill, the rest being produced and delivered by independent planters. Last year the amount of sugar produced by the mill was 29,193 tons.

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