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Show SWINGING BOOMS ON SERVICE CAR HELP Service Car Equipped With Two Swinging Booms Made of Heavy Pipe la Fpund Useful for Lifting Heavy Care Up Embankments as Well as for Towing Purposes. By mounting two swinging booms, made of heavy pipe and fittings, on the chassis of a light automobile made over Into a service car, an Alabama dealer Increased Its usefulness considerably. The Iwo booms are fastened together at the rear with two cross members of Iron. Recently the car was sent out for a one-ton truck loaded with lumber, which had gone over a 20-foot embankment The truck was pulled up without unloading It. This was done by swinging the two booms at right angles to the car, anchoring one to a tree on the side of the road opposite the wreck, while the other boom was used In pulling up the truck. Archie Itlchardson, Decatur, Ga., la Populai Mechanics Magazine, |