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STREET STRIPER - 2
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big and little streets. Behind him, Tom Jones, who's
driving the machine today, fills the paint tank.
reservoir holds 60 gallons of paint, against only20 gallons in the old style machine.
Altogether,
30-thousand gallons of paint went onto the streets
last year.
The self-propelled machine cost the city
85-hundred dollars -- an investment which the traffic
engineer says is well worthwhile. As a matter of
fact, traffic authorities say they'll likely be in
the market for another of these monsters before long.
With Jones working the switches, the machine never
misses -- painting either a solid or a broken line.
The work done by the machine last Monday was measured
at 94-thousand-214 feet -- which figures out to a lo*
of feet in a month, and a lot of paint.This
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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/m1/3/?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.