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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a machine that clears snow from roads, sidewalks, etc. by drawing it in and then blowing it some distance away. See 1966 quote.
Quotations
1955
Were appalled by the possibly $500,000 worth of cement mixers, road rollers, street sweepers, snow blowers, and other city equipment stored outdoors at the Elgin Street yard. . . .
1962
Snowblowers were at work this morning clearing the runways.
1966
It took twenty years of tinkering before [Arthur] Sicard perfected his idea, and in 1927 the city of Outremont [Quebec] bought Sicard's first prototype snowblower for $12,500.