Maintenance - Sewer cleaning equipment (5)
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Early self-powered (by engine) sewer maintenance equipment.

Source: Mike Baker, Balar Equipment Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona.

Early self-powered (by engine) sewer rodder, trailer-mounted. 1940s - 50s.

Source: Mike Baker, Balar Equipment Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona.

Sketch showing action of beach ball during sewer cleaning, 1943.

Source: A. M. Rawn, C.E., "Sewer Cleaning with Rubber Beach Balls," Water Works and Sewerage, Volume 90, No. 6 (June 1943), p. R182 (Reference and Data Section).

Sewer cleaning equipment in Los Angeles, California, 1943.

Source: Mike Baker, Balar Equipment Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona.

Advertisement for flexible sewer rod, manufactured by the Flexible Sewer-Rod Equipment Company, 1944.

Source: Sewage Works Journal, Volume XVI, No. 4 (July 1944), (in advertising supplement).

Advertisement for flexible sewer rod, manufactured by the Flexible Sewer-Rod Equipment Company, 1944.

Source: Sewage Works Journal, Volume XVI, No. 1 (January 1944), p. 24 (in advertising supplement).

Advertisement for flexible sewer rod, manufactured by the Flexible Sewer-Rod Equipment Company, 1944.

Source: Sewage Works Journal, Volume XVI, No. 6 (November 1944), p. 26 (in advertising supplement).

Advertisement for flexible sewer rod, manufactured by the Flexible Sewer-Rod Equipment Company, 1944.

Source: Sewage Works Journal, Volume XVI, No. 5 (September 1944), p. 46 (in advertising supplement).

Cable and windlass method.

Source: Harold E. Babbitt, Sewerage and Sewage Treatment, 6th edition (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1949), p. 279.

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