'These are cleaned of gully deposit by gangs, each of seven coolles and a foreman working with a motor tank lorry, and they, like the. alleyway sweepers, work on a time' schedule, their position is known throughout the day.
There are nearly 14,000 street cullies in the area and 050 are clean-Jed every day.
Every" gully is, therefore, cleaned Jonce in three weeks, It is hoped almost to halve the cost of this work, as it has been found possible to make alteration in the street gully, when situ, which will double is capacity for deposit.
Motor water wagons and mechan ical sweepers all work ona. time schedule, More watering has beer done this summer to reduce the tem= perature of the asphalt roud surface which on hot days rises to over, 140 Jdegrees Fahr, and gets sticky. Thie Is a pleasanter alternative to "sand-ting" which, though more permanent, Jereates dust
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