Rodrigo Konda and Lars-Inge Larsson, Volvo Construction Equipment, Sweden, talk about the safety advantages that excavator-based pipelayers can offer over side booms. It was the year that Franklin D. Roosevelt became President of the US, Amelia Earhart flew the Atlantic and the world was in the grip of the Great Depression. 1932 also saw Britain abandon the Gold Standard, Gandhi go on hunger strike and AI Capone sent to jail for tax evasion. It was also the year that the side boom pipelayer was launched. What was undoubtedly a brilliant invention at the time - the adaptation of a bulldozer-remains essentially unchanged nearly 90 years later.
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