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Title: Rubbish truck driving test
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Driver takes new type of truck for hauling combustible rubbish through a serpentine course in a five-part test to qualify drivers for the new trucks being staged at Chávez Ravine. This test is one in which a driver must start with a course which simulates conditions in a narrow alleyway. It starts with a 1 1/2 foot clearance on each side, and narrows down to three inches. Photo dated: April 3, 1957.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00060206
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 1423.
CARL0000064174
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24412
Subject: Refuse collection vehicles--California--Los Angeles
Truck driving
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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