A girl takes a selfie while standing on the front wheel of a nearly 100-year-old steamroller at the City Museum. Surrounded by filth at a Patna collector’s demolition site just days earlier, the fate of this vintage machine changed overnight.
The road roller, built by John Fowler and Co, Leeds, England, has been lying decrepit for decades in an old corner of the 12-acre Collector Campus, but was rescued early Thursday and sent to the Patna Museum. , a dramatic chain reached its apex. Some of the events that have unfolded since the landmark’s demolition began in mid-May.
A senior Patna museum official told PTI that since arriving at the museum, it has become a “star attraction” with visitors, especially young people, vying to take selfies and asking about its history.Saturday.
He said the museum’s fortunes changed overnight, from a neglected corner of the collection’s campus to attracting “giant eyeballs of visitors” at the museum.
However, the advent of the vintage Steamroller has spawned “inaccurate and distorted news reports” in some media outlets, including some web portals.
Some portals falsely claim that it is “70 feet underground” and “excavated” during “excavation operations”, while several web channels and major Hindi-language daily newspapers , also claims that “it is 150 feet.” years,” officials said, without confirmation.
Transport heritage experts estimate its age to be around 100 years old. The official said it was disappointing that some media outlets, especially some news portals, were spreading “inaccurate and distorted reports” about the history of the road roller and how it was rescued.
A senior official in the arts and culture department of the Bihar government said it was aware of the problem and that “measures are being taken to curb the spread.”
“We are delighted that the Patna Museum now owns this rare vintage machine that previously lay on the Patna Collector’s campus. rescued a road roller after investigating the antiques of
“We’ll display it properly on boards with information about it so that people get the real information,” he said.
He said he was aware that some YouTube web portals and digital news channels report “genuine and unverified information” through their videos.
Until recently, its heavy iron wheels were partially buried in a mound of dirt. Near midnight on August 24, it was lifted by a crane and taken by truck to the Patna Museum.
A citizen-led initiative, the Save Historic Patna Collectorate, popularized the vintage road roller by hosting heritage walks and online sessions, drawing the attention of authorities to its poor condition.
A senior museum official said, “The road roller was rescued after excavation work and may have caused confusion, but the local media who misrepresented it did not contact us to obtain the real thing.” .
“The road roller was mostly standing on the ground with only the wheels partially buried and only the surrounding soil removed. It’s absurd to report that
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