Usage
In the UK, a number of companies owned fleets of steam rollers and contracted them out to local authorities.
Many were still in use into the 1960s, and part of the M1 motorway was made with the help of steam rollers.
A few steam rollers were still being used for road maintenance in the early 1970s, and this may go some way to explaining why diesel-powered rollers are still colloquially known as steam rollers to this day.
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