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In the early 1950s, there were only tamping machines using mechanical squeezing of the vibrating tamping tines.
The disadvantage was that the ballast was not compacted uniformly.
Then I had the idea to introduce hydraulics.Dr. Josef Theurer, founder Plasser & Theurer
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