TOWER WAGONS AT LIVERPOOL I N addition to the two
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types of tower wagon based on the new Bedford Middleweight chassis, to be displayed during the •Association of Public Lighting Engineers' conference at Liverpool from September 15-18, Karrier Motors, Ltd., Luton will display a Gamecock chassis with an Eagle three-stage tower
A three-stage tower wagon, also of Eagle make, will be available for inspection mounted on a Thames 2-ton chassis.
R. A. Lister and Co., Ltd., Dursley, Gloucestershire, will feature their Eclipse portable telescopic tower ladder mounted on a Lister Auto-Truck. A power-driven pump is now used to extend the ladder in place of the manual means formerly adopted.
Fully extended, the Lister ladder has a maximum height from the ground to the platform of 24 ft. 6 in.
John Gibson and Son, Ltd., Jameson Place, Leith, Edinburgh, will have three.
pieces, of equipment on display. A Diamond battery-electric chassis will have mounted upon it a Gibson tower ladder„ whilst a Morris-Commercial 25-cwt. chassis will be available with a Gibson hydraulically operated tower ladder.
This model is of light-alloy construction, with frames which telescope into each other. The platform rotates through 3600 and when not in use can be folded flat.
A Rawlinson three-section counterbalanced tower extending to 25 ft. will be displayed on a Karrier Bantam chassis. This tower is elevated mechanically, with provision for !Manual operation ln an emergency.
This machine is being supplied by Rootes, Ltd., of Manchester, to the borough of Cheadle and Gatley. The maker of the tower is S. Rawlinson, Ltd., Audley Range, Blackburn.