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Electric Tractor to Replace Horses

23rd January 1953
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THE first of a fleet of 1-ton electric tractors designed and built with the co-operation of British Railways by Scott Electric Vehicles, Ltd., Green Street, Kidderminster, is now in service at Lawley Street railway depot, Birmingham. These three wheeled vehicles will, " The Commercial Motor" is informed, eventually replace the horses used for drawing internal drays at important railway goods depots all over the country.

The tractor is backed under the front of a dray and the platform is elevated to lift the front axle off the ground.

A three-step controller operates through a travel resistance wound on six formers. A push-button controls elevation. The 2 h.p. traction motor, with chain drive to the front wheel, propels the tractor at a maximum speed of 4 m.p.h., whilst the rear platform is raised hydraulically by a separate elevating motor with a shaft-driven pump. Power for both motors is drawn from a D.P. Kathanode 24-volt traction battery with a capacity of 184 amp.-hrs. at the 10-hr. rate. Solid 10-in. by 4-in. tyres are fitted at the rear and an 18-in. by 7-in, pneumatic on the front driving wheel.

The new Scott tractor is approximately 11 ft. long overall and, towing a dray, has a turning ci.reie of 24 ft. 6 ins. The total weight, including the battery, is just over a ton.

PRESSURE FOR LONGER EXPORT CREDITS

" BRITISH manufacturers of heavy commercial vehicles are already in close touch with the Government on the problem of allowing extended credits to overseas buyers of buses and trucks in order to maintain the industry's exports," said Mr. Henry Spurrier, managing director of Leyland Motors, Ltd., when he spoke at a staff dinner last week.

Action was necessary, he stated, to stem growing competition from Western European manufacturers who, with the backing of their Governments, were allowing credit to overseas buyers for up to 15 years.

He added that the first year of association with Albion Motors, Ltd., had been an outstanding success.

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