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Kyrkö mosse VII: 1/1 tank

Probably a faulty meter ...

Automotive graveyard that once was Åke's Junkyard (Swedish: Åkes bilskrot). Åke Danielsson (1914-2000) started to work on the bog (Swedish: mosse) already in the 1930s but then he dug up peat with a shovel. After letting the peat dry he sold it to the farmers. Later he built a kind of train with a Chevrolet motor to transport the peat from the bog to steady ground. He also built a peat press with another car motor. When the junkyard grew he started to sell car parts.

Nowadays it is discussed whether the car wrecks should be preserved as a part of the history of the 1900s, or if they are an environmental problem because they slowly leak oil and toxins.

Kyrkö mosse, Ryd, Tingsryd.

sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrkö_mosse (website in Swedish)

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Uploaded on December 30, 2009
Taken on July 24, 2009