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STREET PAINTER - 1
MACHINE COMING
The city of Dallas has 'machire now that can
those neat white lines in the street almost as fastas big city traffic can wear them out.
The self-
propelled paint machine is the newest addition to the
Traffic Control Department.
SERVICING IT.
The city has between
550 and 600 miles of streets that need their center
stripes and lane markers freshened up from time to
time -- with new streets being added all the time.
~chuggedJ
The old striping machine along at about three
miles an hour -- the self-propelled job ups that rate
to about 10 miles an hour, and does rough l eth
work one of the old machines can do.
The men load up the buggy at the traffic control shop.
George Chancellor fills one tank with tiny glass beadsthat make the paint more luminous.
88-thousand pounds
of the beads were used last year in painting the citfs
2:00
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Street painter], script, June 20, 1960; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc906992/m1/1/?q=%22Science+and+Technology+-+Tools%22: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.