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Refuse Collectors for Mechanical and Manual Loading, Gullyand Cesspool-emptiers and Electric Orderly Trucks to Figure in Range of New and Improved Equipment

THE 56th annual conference of the Institute of Public Cleansing, to be held at Southend-on-Sea, from June 14-18, promises much of interest in the way of mechanical equipment and appliances. Over the years, great improvements have been made in mechanical loading devices, principally in the simplification in design which, in its turn, has reduced maintenance,

Delegates to the conference will be able on Wednesday morning to examine many examples of the latest municipal equipalent, ranging from the efficient electric street orderlies, which are becoming increasingly popular, to mechanical-loading refuse collectors, gully-emptiers and much-improved versions of sideand md-loaders.

During the conference five papers will )e read.

Of the machines that are to be shown ind demonstrated, one that is likely to taract considerable attention is the new "ransport Dual-Tip 18-cu.-yd. groundoading refuse collector, which will be taking its first appearance. Its all-steel ,ody is shaped and mounted to be ipped to a vertical position to conolidate the load.

Whilst the container Is reinforced to ithstand the tipping stresses, there is o heavy tipping sub-frame beneath it. will he shown on a Karrier Game)ck chassis with crew cab to scat six tn. The makers of the body are lover. Webb and Liversidge, Ltd., 561 Id Kent Road, London, S_E.1.

Other Transport machines to be town will be a 41-cu.-yd. bulk-refuse rrier based on a Foden F06/15 assis, a 15-cu.-yd. rear-loading movg-floor refuse collector with Karrier imecock chassis, a 10-cu.-yd. Derbype collector body on a Karrier Bann chassis and a low-loading salvage tiler.

One of the best examples of !chanical-loading refuse collectors to be demonstrated is the NashSherren Mark IV made by Commercial Motor Garage and Repair Co., Ltd., 255-265 Kingston Road, London, S.W.19. At the rear of the 16-18-cu.yd. body there are two bays and in each a runway is formed to guide a loading platform on which the bin is placed. At the touch of a control the bin is hoisted, tipped and returned to the loading position. A double Deri-Sini dual-outlet pump provides the hydraulic power for lifting and for dumping.

The body design is ingenious in many other respects. For instance, when the B. and E. twin-ram tipping gear is operated, a portion of the roof and side panels and the whole of the rear-end hinge about the lower portion of the body, thus giving a maximum opening for discharge The body is well worth critical examination for its completely hygienic character. It is to be shown on a Dennis Pax chassis.

Among the six machines to be demonstrated by Karrier Motors, Ltd., Luton, will be a new version of the

Karrier-Yorkshire 750-gal. gullyemptier. The normal-control chassis on which the equipment is mounted permits the installation of a Perkins P6 oil engine and it is in this form that the vehicle will be seen.

In common with the standard model, this new version embodies piston corn pression and discharge, water-sealed pump, balanced crane and modernized shut-off valve. The Karrier-Yorkshire R.S.C. roadsweeper-collector, also to be demonstrated, has a 72-in, curved brush, a patented elevator gear, servo brush-lifting gear and a water-sprinkler to keep down the dust. The body is of 2-ton capacity.

The remaining Karrier exhibits will consist of a Bantam 7-cu.-yd. refuse collector, a liantarn 10-cu.-yd. movingfloor refuse collector, a Gamecock of 10-cu.-yd. capacity with fixed floor, and a Karrier-Transport Loadmaster with 20-25-cu..yd. compressor body.

Fore-and-aft Tipping

Of the four vehicles to be demonstrated by Shelvoke and Drewry, Ltd., Letchworth, the S.D. fore-and-aft tipper and the container hulk-loading vehicle are of particular interest. The former has a l6-18-cu.-yd. refuse body which can be raised to a vertical position to trim and consolidate the load. The twin hydraulic rams which perform the lifting also serve to end-tip the body for discharging.

The container bulk-loading vehicle also has a fore-and-aft tipping body. At the rear is a special door carrying the necessary hooks for attaching the container, which becomes automatically locked in position. The containers, of up to 11-cu.-yd. capacity, are brought to the vehicle on a jack truck and are lifted off automatically.

Once in position, the body, complete with container, is elevated, the container being tipped through an aperture designed to prevent any escape of refuse. The time taken by the operation is less than a minute.

An S.D. Freighter with Chelsea-type side-loading body and an S.D. 800-gal. gully-emptier will also be seen.

Among the larger refuse collectors will be the Super-Jekta and the Paladin, both made by Walkers and County Cars, Ltd., 76 GrovePark Road,

London, W.4. The Super-Jekta has a body of 26-cu.-yd. capacity and is to be shown on a Leyland Octopus eightwheeled chassis. It is built up of five sections, each of which is free to slide over the other.

When filling, all the sections are disposed towards the rear of the body, and as each section is filled, it is caused to slide forward by hydraulic means, so exposing the next section. This process is repeated until the body is filled to capacity. In discharging, the motion of the sections is reversed, and discharge takes place horizontally without, of course, the body being tipped.

The Paladin is designed to handle containers of about 1-cu.-yd. capacity. The container is brought to the vehicle by trolley and thereafter the lifting and dumping are carried out without manual effort. The Paladin also has a Jekta body.

The equipment of Dennis Bros., Ltd., Guildford, will consist of five machines. One of the most interesting is the Dennis Vulture front-loading refuse collector with a 20-cu.yd. body. This model is powered by a Perkins P6 underfloor oil engine. Accommodation for the loaders is provided at the rear.

A second exhibit will be a Paxit Major 25-cu.-yd. rearloading refuse collector having a hydraulically operated hoist for dealing with large containers. In this case, five loaders are accommodated in the cab. In the Paxit rear-loading refuse collector, aluminium alloy is used in the construction of the I8-cu.-yd. body.

Both the Paxit Major and the Paxit are powered by a Perkins P6 oil engine. Two further Dennis machines to be shown will be a Chelsea-type sideloader and an 800-gallon gully-emptier.

Familiar types will be found in the Scammell mechanical-horse range, which is notable for easy manoeuvrability. On this occasion, three Scammell models will be demonstrated, including Scarab 3-ton and 6-ton refuse collectors and a Scarab 3-ton sweeper-collector semi-trailer outfit.

The Scarab 3-tonner will have a 12cu.-yd. body and the 6-tormer a moving-floor I8-cu.-yd. body. The sweepercollector is a self-contained unit designed for coupling to a Scarab 3-ton tractive unit. It is powered by its own* engine, which enables the speed of the brushes to be regulated to meet any condition without regard to the speed of the tractive unit. The approximate load capacity of the body is 3 tons, equivalent to about 85 cu. ft.

Four machines will be demonstrated by the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., Dagenham, of which two will be refuse collectors of 7-cu.-yd. and 10-cu.-yd. capacity respectively. The third will be an 800-gallon cesspool-emptier with Allan Taylor equipment, and the fourth a cesspool-emptier of similar capacity with crew cab and bodywork by the Eagle Engineering Co., Ltd.

Each of the cesspool-emptiers will be based on Thames 5-ton chassis. The smaller of the refuse collectors will have a Thames 3-ton chassis with Ford oil engine and the l0-cu.-yd. machine a Thames 4-ton chassis powered by a Perkins P6 oil engine. Both refuse collectors will have Tuke and Bell bodies.

Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., Luton, will have five Bedford municipal vehicles for demonstration—three refuse collectors, a combined gully and cesspoolemptier and a cesspool-emptier. The largest of the refuse collectors will have an Eagle Compressmore 12/20 body with Neville cab. A two-section compression blade is suspended from an overhead trolley unit; the barrier face,

used for the 750-800-gal. gully and cesspool-emptier, and the 7-ton longwheelbase chassis for the 750-800-gal. cesspit-emptier_ The body and equipment of both are Eagle products.

The Eagle Engineering Co., Ltd., Warwick, will show six machines on their own account. Of these, five will be refuse collectors ranging from a 7-cu.-yd. side-loader to an 18-26-cu.-yd. vehicle with Compressmore body. The ' sixth exhibit will be an 800-gal. gullyemptier. Three of the refuse collectors will be based on Bedford chassis, another on a Thames with oil engine, and the fifth on an Austin chassis. The gully-emptier will have a Bedford 5-ton chassis.

The Yorkshire Mark 11 gully-emptier to be demonstrated by the Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Co., Hunslet, Leeds, 10, will represent the latest development of this well-known 'low) The new Pashley r:tric street orderly_ ^ maintenance, the body I be raised vertically.

emptying apparatus. Recent modifications allow for greater flexibility in the design of the chassis used and the customer is given a wider range of choice. Karrier Motors, Ltd., will show the apparatus mounted on one of their chassis.

There are few names better known in municipal circles than that of Lewin Road Sweepers, Ltd., Victoria Works, Hill Top, West Bromwich, who will be represented by five machines. One of the most interesting will be a refuse collector in which the refuse is compressed by the action of a half-helix impeller which carries it to the front of the body. The load is discharged in compressed form by causing the cylindrical container to rotate, Mounted on a Thornycroft TR4 D1 oil-engined chassis will be a Lewin sprinkler sweeper collector, whilst equipment of similar type will figure on an Austin petrol-engined chassis. Yet a third one will be of the tractor-drawn type such as might be favoured by those undertakings wishing to make maximum use of their prime movers.

An electrically driven version, which will complete the exhibit, has a 3-ft. 3-in. sweeper, as against the 7-ft. type fitted to the Thornycroft and Austin.

Shcfflex Ltd„ Rutland Street, Sheffield, will demonstrate their mechanicalloading refuse collectors, of which that with a 9-cu.-yd. body has been designed for operating in narrow streets or alleyways.

A new feature of the smaller machine is that the loading height has been reduced to 8 in., it now being possible to place the bin in position on the elevating gear by tilting it. All Sheffiex designs are based on the principle of eliminating the escape of refuse or dust during loading.

An ,example of a Morrison Electricar street orderly will be exhibited by F. G. Smith Motors, Ltd., High Road, Goodmayes, Ilford. This little vehicle has a 2-cu.-yd. body fitted with screw gear giving a 45° angle or tip.

Another battery-electric 2-cu.-yd. endtipping street orderly to be demonstrated will be an Electra 1-tonner with lightalloy body. The makers are T. H. Lewis, Ltd., Station Estate, Balmoral Road, Watford, Hens, Messrs. Sidney Holes Electric Vehicles, Withdean Works, London Road, Withdcan, Brighton, 6, are responsible for the Manulectric street orderly to be exhibited. It also has a 2-cu.-yd. body, is battery driven and has facilities for end gipping by hydraulic means.

The street orderlies produced by W. R. Pashley, Ltd., Chester Street, Aston, Birmingham, 6, have hitherto been manually operated, but a new battery-electric model will make its debut at Southend. .

It is a 20-cwt. pedestrian-controlled four-wheeler with a wheelbase of 4 ft. The wheels at the rear are mounted at 13-in centres, whilst the track at the front is 3 ft. 5 M. The mechanism of the tipping gear is powered by the 2 h.p. traction motor, the angle of tip being 45°.

For maintenance purposes, the body can be raised another 45° by manual means. If it is desired to tow, the orderly manually, the motor drive can be freed. The appliance can he fitted with a tip-up seat and footrest, in which case the Road Fund Tax becomes LID, as against the £3 for pedestriancontrolled machines.

The outstanding equipment to be demonstrated by Johnston Bros. (Contractors), Ltd., Ibex House, Minories, London, E.C.3, will he a suction scavenger designed for the rapid removal of leaves and litter. It is, in effect, an outsize in vacuum cleaners in which a high speed multi bladed impeller is used.

The Johnston slush remover, which will also be seen, is for lifting from the road accumulations of slush resulting from melting snow. Snow ploughs suitable for mounting on most types of vehicle of I-3-ton payload capacity will be exhibited.

New features incorporated in the Bedford-Lacre sweeper-collector to be demonstrated include the transfer of the hydraulic control. mechanism for easier operation by the driver, and a modified brush shield which allows the main brush to operate close to the kerb when required.

In the Gibson Paddle-Packer, a refuse collector to be demonstrated by John Gibson and Son, Ltd., Jameson Place, Leith, Edinburgh, 6, the refuse is tipped on to a curved platform at the rear of the 12-16-cu.-yd. body and stowed away by paddle mechanism. It will be shown on a Morris-Commercial 5-ton chassis.

The following concerns will show their latest grit-spreading equipment:— Gloster 'Tractors, Ltd., Pucklechurch, near Bristol; Messrs. William Bunce and Son, Ashbury, Swindon: Atkinsons Agricultural Appliances, Ltd., EnterpLrainsees,Works, Kendal Street, Clitheroe,


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