thrown in the trash cans or litter-
ing the ground or the roadside. All
this senseless waste could be turn-
ed into cold hard cash and used on
Youth and Community projects for
the benefit of all of us who live
in Cassiar.

Let's give it a thought! In-
stead of throwing your empties away
for the Surface Brigade tc pick up
and dump with the rest of the gar-
bage, get in the habit of putting
them back into their cases and pile
these on the porch or other conven~
lent location, where members of the
Lions Club will pick them up each
Saturday.

To parodise the T.V.

slogan:

"Double your pleasure, doubie your
fun;

Put out two cases instead of one!"

xk *&

THINK BIG

Looks like our friends over the
border who are pretty good at making

big things had to go to France for
this one.

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Giant transporter with 600-ton payload

To reduce the unladen weight while
maintaining the rigidity of a big 240-
wheel heavy transporter built for an
American customer, the French
company Etablissements Nicolas. of
Auxerre, fabricated the entire struc-
ture in low-alloy steels having a high
yield point. The transporter comprises
two 120-wheel bogies, each equipped
with an outrigger boom mounted on
a turret containing a 300-ton hy-
draulic jack.

The equipment being transported—
e.g. transformers, caissons, com-
pressors, generators—is slung between
two bogies and hung from the aut-
riggers, which are fabricated from a
high-strength low-alloy steel con-
taining 0.5 to 1.5% nickel (Superelso
70) *. This steel i$ well established in
transport, earth moving and constiuc-
tional applications: it has a minimura
yield point of 44 ton/in?, good weld-
ability end favourable fatigue prop-
erties. About 50 tons were used in
the vehicie.

Cne of the most impressive trans-
porters ever built, the compiete
vehicle weighs 200 tans and can
carry payloads of up to 600 tons. it
is 19% feet high. 20 feet wide, and
the maximum permissible length of
the convoy when a load is being
carried is 328 feet,