It's 1956, and a crowd has gathered to watch Glasgow's latest weapon in the war on litter go into battle - the Magpie mobile rubbish sooker-upper.
Mind you, if some of our thoughtless fellow citizens didn't drop things everywhere, we wouldn't have needed such a mechanical contraption. And I wonder how many men with brushes and shovels this shiny toy could have paid for...
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