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by CM reporter A TRAINING course for heavy vehicle recovery crews last week undertook some realistic exercises, with a water-filled ditch and a deep clay pit as terrain.
On disused workings of the London Brick Co Ltd, at Stewartby, Beds, recovery men spent the " practical " day of the three-day course. Technical lectures by course organisers Ron Grice and Dick Thomas (founders of a new company, Recovery Systems Ltd, c/o Priory Street Works, Ware, Herts) were held in Stewartby Village Hall.
The course members were fortunate to be able to test the capabilities of three types of recovery vehicles. In the working situation at the clay pit site, lessons learned at lectures on the mechanical advantage provided by different arrangements of snatch blocks, chains and cables were used to good effect.