Special Trailer Helps Housing Programme
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GLASGOW'S municipal housing department has evolved a trailer for the transport of foam slag slabs from a new factory at Amulree Street to housing centres in the city. J. Brockhouse and Co:, Ltd., has built the trailer, which is designed to carry slabs measuring up to 10 ft. long, 8 ft. high and 8 ins. thick. Each slab weighs more than a ton.
On the trailer platform are mounted four V-shaped anglesteel structures, with "carrying faces" set at 4 degrees from the vertical. This angle has been found to be the most satisfactory. Apart from the fact that the slabs are handled in a vertical position by mechanical means, it was found impracticable to transport them horizontally on a flat platform.
The superstructure is suitably cross-braced and special clamps are provided to hold the slabs in position. It comprises four units, each 10 ft. long, erected in tandem aql in parallel. Eight large slabs are carried against the superstructure, with smaller ones in the centre of the trailer.
A Foden tractor with a Gardner five-cylindered oil engine tows the low-loading trailer.