Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Dempster is known for the invention of the Dempster-Dumpster, a now-commonly-used trash receptacle that can be mechanically emptied into garbage trucks. During the 1910s and 1920s, the Dempster Brothers Construction Company, operated by Dempster and his brothers, built a number of roads and railroads across the Southern Appalachian region. [ 2 ]
The Dempster Dumpmaster, introduced in the 1950s, [19] was the first commercially successful, front-loading garbage truck in the United States. The product uses the Dempster-Dumpster system of mechanically emptying standardized metal containers, which had been patented by the company in 1937.
A garbage truck is a truck specially designed to collect municipal solid waste and transport it to a solid waste treatment facility, such as a landfill, recycling center or transfer station. In Australia they are commonly called rubbish trucks , or garbage trucks, while in the U.K. dustbin lorry , rubbish lorry or bin lorry is commonly used.
The truck driver even said he made the Secret Service’s collective heart skip a beat when the president asked him for a quick little ride-along. “Once they were all done, I started up the truck.
A side-load bin tipper was fitted to a garbage truck as early as 1929, by the Heil company in America. [6] In the 1950s the Dempster Dumpmaster popularized the front-end loader variant, with bins being tipped over the cab of the truck. [7] Both types of integrated bin tipper are now common on municipal refuse collection trucks.
Former President Trump took to the cab of a garbage truck in Wisconsin late Wednesday as he sought to keep the focus on President Biden’s misstep the previous day. Biden appeared to call Trump ...
The truck, powered by compressed natural gas, was operated by Groot Waste Management, police said, adding the company sent clean-up crew and equipment to the scene, who "removed residual content ...
George Dempster may refer to: George Dempster of Dunnichen (1732–1818), Scots lawyer and member of Parliament George Roby Dempster (1887–1964), American industrialist, inventor and mayor