Banallack Builds for Bullocks.
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BonaHack and Sons have just completed an interesting two-ton cattle trailer, which is intended for the transpert of live bullocks. As a fat bullock weighs somewhere in the neighbourhood of a ton, this means that two will be carried at a time. The body is built Very low, as bullocks have a rooted objeetion to mounting any vehicle the floor of which is not close to the ground. To assist in loading and unloading the trailer, the tailboard, which ie naturally high, is dropped. and forms a. platform, with a slight slope.
The sides are shut in, but ventilation spaces are left between the sides, and the 3 in. cambered roof. Two eyelets are provided on each side of the Vehicle close behind tho cab, these are for fastening the head stall ropes. A rail is fitted round the roof, and an iron ladder is fixed to the near aide of the body, close to the cab, so that the packing of lug:rage or goods on to the roof is facilitated.
The seating accommodation in the cab is sufficient for three persons; to protect them to .o slight degree, a. 2 ft. dashboard is provided.
The frame on which the body is mounted is built of 5 in. by 2i in.. rolled channel steel with the channel outside. It is ineunted on long, flexible springs so that the cattle will not be injured: by undue vibration.
The rear axle is ['yanked under the body to allow 'for the low, loading floor. The rear springs are clipped to flaps forged in one with the axle. Band brakes are fitted to each rear wheel. The front axle is centrally pivoted and is of the usual type. .
The wheels are built of wood and are fitted with single rubber tyres, those at. the front being 75 mm. fitting 670 mm., and those at the back 90 mm. fitting 881 mm. This trailer is to the order of Mr. C. if. Drummond, Liteford Hall, Northampton.
The New Relief Road Through Croydon.
A start has been made on the new motor relief road from Thornton Heath to Purley, which was one of the first schemes to receive attention by the Road Board upon its formation in 19.10. A number of men have begun excavations at the Purley end, where the road is to be brought out at a Spot away from the cross-roads. The work includes the abolition of the level crossing at 'Wadden Marsh Lane and the construction of a new bridge to span the Croydon-Sutton line.
War Vehicles Sold.
In reply to a question by Captain, Brown in the House of Commons last week, Mr. Kellaway stated that the numbers of motor lorries and motorcycles sold by the Disposal Board to the War Motors Association since August 1st last were as follows ;—Motor lorries, 49; cars and vans, 26; motorcycles, 484. The numbers sold otherwise since that date have been :-L-Peloter lorries, 7,347; cars and rare, 4,965; motorcycles, 6,011.
Lorries in France.
Mr. Churchill stated, in ,reply. to a question by Mr. Clough in the House of Commons last week, that 2,252 lorries are
still in use between the Channel and Cologne. They are all needed at present, but reductions will be made as rapidly as the needs of the Service permit. Up to the present the Army has been able to dispense with lorries more rapidly than they can be shipped to this country, and this state of allaire is likely to continue for some time to Come.
Next Year's Heavy Vehicle Show.
The two sections of the S.M.M. and T. chiefIT concerned—the Commercial Vehicle bection and the le Steam Vehicle Section—have again urged upon the Council of the Society the deslability of holding a commercial vehicle show in London in the spring if suitable arrange ments can be made, and the matter comes fer consideration at the January meeting of the council,
The New Straker-Squire.
The new 3-5-ton Straker-Squire chassis, a preliminary description of which we give elsewhere in this issue, has, until recently, been known as the A.W. type. This model, however, is now known as the A type. This alteration was rendered ilecussar'y because a new model manufactured by another well-known company also bears the title " A.W." Straker-Squire, Ltd., therefore, with the courtesy typical of them, agreed to alter the designation of their model.
About 200 members of the Birmingham Metallurgical Society paid a visit recently to the. Sunbeam Motor Car Co.'S works at Wolverhampton, making a tour of the factory, and afterwards being entertained by the company to tea in the new canteen.