Still More Progress in Mechanical Handling
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THE growing demand for cost-, labourand timesaving machinery and systems in all industries is evident from the amount and variety of equipment to be seen at the Mechanical Handling Exhibition which opened at Earls Court, London, on Tuesday. The exhibition this year is bigger than ever before and covers a floor area of 525,000 sq. ft. It is open daily (except Sunday) from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. until May 18.
As usual, many of the exhibits are of interest to the commercial-vehicle operator, mainly because goods handling normally begins or ends on a vehicle and a lot of the equipment is designed for unloading and loading. There is also equipment based on vehicles and there are in fact vehicles to be seen. This report is concerned with exhibits which are new or recently introduced.
Dump Trucks F. L. Douglas (Equipment), Ltd. (stand 135) are showing two new dump trucks—the Automaster 15 and 22 (the 22 is being shown by Thos. W. Ward, Ltd., stand D3). These have capacities of 15 and 22 tons respectively. Both have Rolls-Royce engines—the 15 a 18-5 b.h.p. unit, the 22 one of 250 h.h.p.—with torque-converter automatic transmission. Douglas are also exhibiting a number of aircraft handling vehicles and a model of new development a sixwheeled container-handling vehicle with a capacity of 20 tons. Powell Duffryn Engineering Co., Ltd. (stand J17) are also showing two vehicles—fitted with Dempster bulk material handling equipment. An Austin 5-tonner is shown with a Dempster Dumpster LFW 253 C unit and a Dinosaur Model 22,000 T is based on a six-wheeler chassis.
Load-handling equipment in warehouses and on vehicles is featured by Armstrong Whitworth Equipment on stand H14 with the Rolamat system and Retract-A-Track.
Vehicle-mounted loaders for all types of bodies are featured by Service Engineering Co. (Northampton), Ltd. (stand N3), including sack loaders and their latest Vanloader. Major tail lift. Epco, Ltd. (stand X7) are showing two manually operated cranes, with capacities of 2-5 and 7-20 cwt., which can also be mounted on vehicles, and an electrically operated hydraulic 2-t041 floor crane. Hydraulic lifting tables which can be used for loading purposes are being exhibited by Becker Equipment and Lifts, Ltd. (stand
n20 J4), who also show an interesting pedestrian-controller fork-lift truck costing under £50.
Units of the same type are being shown by Didsbury 'Engineering Co., Ltd. (stand GI), Power Jacks, Ltd. (static • C5) and Heston Aircraft and Associated Engineers, Ltd (stand K8). Heston also feature their loading dock levelle and 550-gal. light alloy containers for bulk liquid trans. port. Models of three types of dock leveller--hydraulic counterbalanced and automatic—are amongst the exhibit of G. Hunter (London), Ltd. (stand J.I5) and MicrocelI Ltd. (stands H17 and .118), are showing a 60-cu.-ft. capa. city, reinforced-plastics container called the Bulkbin.
New lorry-mounted and mobile cranes are exhibited by number of concerns. Lambert Engineering Co. (Glasgow) Ltd. (stand F20) are showing two new units—the Hydrocor Hebridean based on a Foden six-wheeled chassis and tiu Highlander on a Leyland Comet chassis. These havt capacities of 12.5 and 6 tons respectively. On stand FE can be seen an example of a 3-ton hydraulic crane recentl) introduced by Trunney Cranes, Ltd. It is mounted on 1Bedford chassis and another version is shown on a Fordsor Major tractor on the Ford stand (J1 1). Thomas Smith and Sons (Rodley), Ltd. on stand HIO re showing their new M-6, 6-ton mobile crane. Power for 11 crane motions and travel is supplied by a Perkins 4.270 iesel engine driving through a Brockhouse 1410 torque onverter. Three of the Steel Group of Companies are bowing new mobile cranes at the exhibition.. R. H. Neal nd Co., Ltd. include three new models—the NS60, NS80 nd NS90 with capacities of 7, 10 and 15 tons respectively. 'he new Taylor Jumbo Speedcrane, which is shown by F. 'aylor and Sons (Manchester), Ltd. on stand K5, is a fullircle-slewing unit and can travel at 20 m.p.h. on the road. 'he jib is hydraulically operated and the maximum lifting apacity is 4 tons. The third member of the group exhibit1g, Steels Engineering Products Ltd. (stand 09), include in eir display a new model of their Aeneas 10-ton capacity nit. This is supplied as either a strutor cantilever-jib rane.
Another fast mobile crane being shown is the. Iron Fairy -60 unit which is featured by British Hoist and Crane Co., Ad. on stand H6. This model has a capacity of 3 tons, an travel at 25 m.p.h. and negotiate gradients of up to
in 5. The jib is hydraulically operated and can slew [-trough 360 degrees. Various examples of the new Rapier 11 6-ton mobile crane will be exhibited by Ransornes Lapier, Ltd. (stand .H8). One will be mounted on a lorry nd shown with a 60-ft. strut jib. In the West Brompton oreeourt the same concern will show a Rapier 2020 lorrylounted crane with a 100-ft. strut jib. This 'unit has a apacity of 20 tons.
George Cohen Sons and Co., Ltd. are showing for the .rst time on stand H9 a Jones KL 77, 7-ton capacity mobile ane with two others from the Jones range, and on the nd of Metropolitan-Camrnell Carriage and Wagon Co., td. (H15) will be seen a new hydraulic slewing crane— e 4-ton capacity Whippett. In addition to a new mobile ane, the C52 1-ton heavy-duty unit shown by Colchester illage, Ltd. (stand S19), a new lorry-mounted unit will featured. This is the Tico model K.52E hydraulic ane which can slew through 360 degrees and costs only 50.
The largest side-loader truck made. in the world wilt be shown by Lancers Machinery, Ltd. on the West Brompton forecourt. This is the new 18,000 series model 18/18 TD.12 which has a capacity of 40,000 lb. Import additions havealso been made to the range of fork-lift trucks made by Matbro, Ltd. (stand H12). In addition to the new small model 40 with a capacity of 4,000 lb., ,a. completely new range of machines will be shown—the 'Matiiro Compacts of 6,000, 7,000 and 8,000 lb. capacity, together with a new heavy-duty range with capacities of 15,000, 18,000and 20,000 lb.
An extensive range of materials-handling equipment will be shown by the Yale and 'Towne Manufacturing Co. (stand G12). A new model is the warehouser Extend-aLoad truck, a reach truck with a smaller overall height than a vertical pantograph mechanism when the mast is fully elevated. This is achieved by using a horizontal pantograph mechanism which is set to give increased reach when loading and unloading lorries.
Lansing Bagnall, Ltd. (stands Fit and H16) will be showing four new battery-electric, trucks, including a Rapide 4500 fork truck with. a 4,500 lb ' capacity and a Storemaker FOEP 1.1 pedestrian-contrtilIed fork truck. Also being shown is the Monarch A.24 fork truck which has a capacity of 24,000 lb.
A comprehensive range of equipment is being shown by Stacatruc, Ltd. (stand 113). Fork trucks with capacities from 1,000 lb) to 70,000 lb. can be seen and of particular interest are two units — the Clarklift 20, and 25 with capacities of 2,000 lb. and 2,500 lb. respectively — which are being shown in the U.K. for the first time.
New fork-lift trucks in a wide range of capacities are being shown by a number of other concerns, including Boss (Engineers), Ltd. (stand H6), with capacities, up to 26,000-Ib.; Shelvoke and Drewry, Ltd. (stand 06); Conveyancer Fork Trucks, Ltd. (stands 114 and 015); Montgomerie Reid Engineering Co., Ltd.' (stand N4), including the redesigned Tunstack Forklift, the Straddlestack and the Reachstack; Materials Handling Equipment (G.B.), Ltd. (stand K7), three new models; and Coventry Climax Engines, Ltd. (stand F12).
On the stand of Charrold, Ltd. (Ti) there are models and illustrations of bulk-delivery vehicles used for coal delivery, including automatic bagging equipment. During the exhibition, bodies and equipment made by the concern are being displayed at the depot of Charrington, Gardner and Locket (London), Ltd., at 185 Warwick Road, close to Earls Court.