The Gentle Art of Excavating - Removing top soil
A new type of shovel removing the top soil from a bluff in the Cotswold Hills. A typically elaborate contraption by the gadget king, William Heath Robinson showing an excavation machine made from a variety of domestic bits and pieces
Picture No
10639458
Media ID
47558016
Size
4100px x 4111px
(2.1MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Illustration by William Heath Robinson in a booklet, The Gentle Art of Excavating, for Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd, Excavator Spe
Date
c.1938
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Amusing Bluff Contraption Convoluted Cotswold Digger Digging Elaborate Excavating Gadget Gentle Removing Shovel Soil
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