The Austin-Western Road Machinery Co.’s 1938 “motor pick-up sweepers” were the height of sweeping technology at the time. They boasted larger, more resilient brooms, hydraulic rather than manual controls for raising the rear broom and elevator, and the relatively recent innovation of using water to wet down the cleaning area before it was swept with the broom.
photographer: Leo Tiede
https://www.bowers.org/index.php/collections-blog/the-fast-and-the-curious-leo-tiede-s-photographs-of-cars
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