Interesting, and the rotary snowplow lives on in the form of a gasoline powered snowthrower. A quick dive into the internet didn't turn up any small snowthrowers with steam engine power.
Growing up in the fifties-sixties in Philly I would still see the occasional delivery of coal to homes and just as you said, they never lacked for cinders when it snowed! And the coal fired snowthrower would keep me a lot warmer than the modern gasoline thrower.
When I was a kid, the alleys in our Iowa town all had cinders in the alleys because coal was still being used to heat homes. The school system's track around the football field was surfaced with cinders, too.
Interesting, and the rotary snowplow lives on in the form of a gasoline powered snowthrower.
ReplyDeleteA quick dive into the internet didn't turn up any small snowthrowers with steam engine power.
Steam power would be good. You would have cinders to shake down on the driveway!
ReplyDeleteGrowing up in the fifties-sixties in Philly I would still see the occasional delivery of coal to homes and just as you said, they never lacked for cinders when it snowed!
ReplyDeleteAnd the coal fired snowthrower would keep me a lot warmer than the modern gasoline thrower.
When I was a kid, the alleys in our Iowa town all had cinders in the alleys because coal was still being used to heat homes. The school system's track around the football field was surfaced with cinders, too.
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