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It looks like a Dalek

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IT looks like a Dalek, one of those fierce robots from the children's TV series, Dr Who, but it is really a garbage tin. Ku-ring-gai Council has issued 700 of the monsters, which have six and a half times the capacity of a normal bin, to test a new system of once-weekly lolly mechanised garbage collections. Bricks, tree stumps, old engines, in fact anything which will fit in, will be whisked into special one-man operated compactor trucks equipped with remote control grips that lift and empty the rubbish.

DESPITE their size, the bins roll easily, perhaps too easily, on two wheels. Column 8 foresees two possible catches — spontaneous combustion of food scraps, lawn clippings and solvents, and runaway, Dalek bins plunging down steep driveways.

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  • APA 6th ed.: (1977-10-03). It looks like a Dalek. The Sydney Morning Herald p. 8.
  • MLA 7th ed.: "It looks like a Dalek." The Sydney Morning Herald [add city] 1977-10-03, 8. Print.
  • Chicago 15th ed.: "It looks like a Dalek." The Sydney Morning Herald, edition, sec., 1977-10-03
  • Turabian: "It looks like a Dalek." The Sydney Morning Herald, 1977-10-03, section, 8 edition.
  • Wikipedia (this article): <ref>{{cite news| title=It looks like a Dalek | url=http://cuttingsarchive.org/index.php/It_looks_like_a_Dalek | work=The Sydney Morning Herald | pages=8 | date=1977-10-03 | via=Doctor Who Cuttings Archive | accessdate=4 November 2024 }}</ref>
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