Published In
Ann Arbor News, March 18, 1949
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NEW SWEEPER GETS A WORKOUT: Leslie G. Bird is shown putting the city's new street sweeper through an experimental run. The new vehicle gives the city three sweepers, but one of the old models has been in operation for 12 years and is nearing its retirement. The new model is not radically different from the other two but it is vastly streamlined in contrast to earlier types that Bird has used in his approximately 30 years with the public works department.

Published In
Ann Arbor News, March 17, 1955
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AMONG CITY EMPLOYES TO BE CITED: Leslie G. Bird of 2081 E. Ellsworth Rd., Pittsfield township, is one of 119 city employes to be awarded service buttons and pins at 7:30 p.m. today at a special meeting of the City Council at City Hall. The veteran motor sweeper operator, shown here making a broom for a motor sweeper at the Municipal Garage, has worked for the city for nearly 38 years. Bird, 68, works at the garage when the weather is bad, too cold or rainy.