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Show GERMANY HAS MOTOR PAVER A new use has been found for the motor truck In street paving. The latest arrlv.-il on the municipal Held of motor fraction Is a benzol truck fitted with a huge air compressor and 1 18 horse power motor, which has been put to work In Berlin, Germain The compressed air la utilized In ramming Belgian block stones, and delivers 90 blows per minute, under a pressure of six atmospheres. One of the peculiar results of the installation of this machine Is the fact that wages paid to the "rammers" "ram-mers" are smaller than heretofore because a weaker class of men can now be employed Formerly the ram - j mlng of Belgian blocks for several hours a dav required men of unusual strength and endurance, who received1 proportionate pay for their work. Now a man with even slight phys- l Ique can do the same or better work by means of the pneumatic ramminc machine, which Is built something like a pnecmatie riveter and Is con-nested con-nested With the motor truck's compressor com-pressor by flexible hose. |