This giant house-remover started work at Valley Steam, Long Island, USA, on the task of removing 200 houses to make way for the new Southern Highway, which will take six lines of traffic. The houses are all ranch-style homes of the three-bedroom type - and nothing need be removed from the houses as the big remover moves away as soon as the water, gas and electricity has been cut. The removal of each house takes three days, and a house has been set aside on the new site to house each family while their house is being shifted. Not even the television aerial was removed - as the giant removed takes away the first house en bloc, 31st August 1953.