Electrics Save Battersea's Pig Food
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THE purchase of three food and paper salvage vehicles embodying Brush Pony chassis, by the Borough Council of Battersea, is something like a triumph for this type of machine. They were supplied through a wellknown Brush dealer, H. Heart and Co., Ltd., 102, London Road, Kingston-onThames, after demonstrations and good salesmanship covering a period of nearly a year,
Success in operation will, it is hoped, lead to the order being increased to about 12 of the same make and type. The payload capacity of each machine is about 16 cwt., and the vehicles arc being employed on house-to-house collection, visits being made twice weekly. As will be seen from the accompanying 'illustration, each vehicle is equipped with an angle-steel rack, clipped to the rear of the body, as a convenient holder for a green canvas sack. The sack will carry a considerable amount of waste paper, so that this is not made dirty or otherwise contaminated The steel body with its slidiisg shutters, has a loading line of 3 ft. 8 ins. and holds 2 cubic yds. at this height. The overall length, without the paper rack, is 11 ft. 4 ins, and the width 5 ft., whilst the turning radius is 6 ft. 3 ins., and, of course, the design lends itself to excellent manceuvrability.
Girling brakes are fitted, and these particular vehicles have oversize batteries of 15 cells, giving a capacity of 207 amp.-hrs. They are of Exide Ironclad make, necessitating the employment of a Legg 30-amp. charger. The speed is 8 m.p.h. light and 6 m.p.h. loaded.
Hand-operated Tipping
Tipping of the body is effected by a single telescopic screw, which can be hand operated from each side, and is situated between the driver's seat and the body. Incidently, body and equipment are the products of Treece (Birmingham), Ltd., Richard Street, Birmingham, 7, which is the sole coneessionnaire for this model. These vehicles will be engaged on the collection of kitchen waste to be employed as pig food.
The Brush Pony chassis has a single front wheel which both steers and
drives. As the controller, with vits resistance and contactor, is immediately above the motor, whilst the battery, in a steel case, is under the driver's seat, wiring is reduced to a minimum.
Suspension at the rear is by, long elliptic springs and the forged-steel stub axles are welded into a plain axle built up from stout angle sections. All tyres are 18 by 7 and the brake drums are 8 ins, in diameter.