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The timber business in Kumasi was crucial to the city's financial system. In addition to being a key employer in its personal proper, it designed significantly secondary work by providing sawn timber planks to the substantial woodworking business and off-cuts to the a lot of charcoal-burning enterprises. So the timber vans provided an crucial support in giving the sawmills with their important raw substance. Even though they typically blocked the city's slim streets, most citizens took a tolerant look at of loaded timber vehicles. It was when they were operating light-weight, or parked unloaded at the roadside, that the timber trucks ended up witnessed as public nuisances.
When not carrying a log, it was the apply to attract the rear wheels of the timber truck forward, leaving the lengthy metal beam extending much driving the motor vehicle. In this problem the beam turned a long spear waiting around to impale an unwary pursuing driver. In most instances no warning was offered of this hazard, but a handful of timber truck motorists tied a piece of purple rag to the stop of the beam. If this aided in daylight it was ineffective at night when, in the absence of a tail light-weight or a reflector, the hazard was considerably better.
An unfortunate English engineer, returning late one particular night from a party at the brewery where he was used, managed to impale his saloon vehicle on the beam of a parked timber truck. The beam penetrated his windshield, handed by his left ear and exited by way of the rear window. The regrettable man was maybe fortunate to get absent with a broken leg and a broken collar bone. Foreigners who know Ghana, as nicely as Ghanaians by themselves, recognise the home-created automobiles as a distinct portion of modern lifestyle which provides essential inexpensive transport. At the exact same time they deplore the high stage of road incidents, several brought on by mechanical and structural problems. It is a really like-hate connection that is fittingly typified by the king of the street: the timber truck.
