Refuse by Road Cuts Council's Costs
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rE prospect of cutting costs for the disposal pf refuse from city boroughs to rural tipping sites, is brought into view by the use of largecapacity road vehicles. At present this work is done mainly by canal and rail, but the City of Edinburgh is one corporation employing vehicles of the type mentioned, with satisfactory results.
A recent addition to the corporation's fleet is a Leyland Hippo 12-tonner with a Transport moving-floor body of 30cub:c-yds. capacity, supplied by Glover, Webb and Liversidge, Ltd., 561, Old Kent Road, London, S.E.I. Seven similar vehicles have been in use by the corporation for the past 10 years and have each conveyed an average of 11,000 tons of refuse tailings per vehicle a year.
The body of the machine has been arranged for overhead loading by hoppers and the moving floor is poweroperated. Other features are the opening lids and the roof walk-ways.
The conditions in which these machines operate are extremely arduous in bad weather, each vehicle having to wait for another to arrive to drag it off the soft ground at the tip when it is discharging its load. The possibility of using large-capacity vehicles for delivering refuse from urban districts, particularly London, to rural sites by road will probably receive much attention because of the difficulty of finding suitable tipping sites.