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| Picture No | 10639460 |
| Date | c.1938 |
| Description | The Gentle Art of Excavating - Clearing bottom of the Thames |
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An improved dragline clearing out the bottom of the upper reaches of the River Thames. A typically rickety and overly complicated piece of machinery by the gadget king, William Heath Robinson, designed to pull a converted pram over the river bed of the Thames to clear rubbish, and disturbing quite a few leisurely fishermen and bathers in the process.
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| Source | Illustration by William Heath Robinson in a booklet, The Gentle Art of Excavating, for Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd, Excavator Spe |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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