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Garbage lorries

In the late 1920s the City Cleansing Department mechanised some of its practices purchasing lorries to replace the traditional horse and carts. Here is a two-tonne lorry emerging from Francis Lane, Darlinghurst, in 1929.

(image: City of Sydney Archives, CRS 538/267)