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INDUSTRIAL TRUCKS
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in many spheres
THE industrial truck was originally introduced primarily for internal works communication, but it has since been put to many other uses. On the Continent the strides in the employment of this type of goods vehicle have been greater than in this country, but the comprehensive range of trucks now marketed by British concerns increases the possibility of their widespread operation, both in works and on ihe road. •
Abroad, industrial trucks are being run on postal-delivery services, the machines having smart van bodies and enclosed drivers' cabs. In Leipzig small' electrics mounted on
pneumatic tyres are employed on the maintenance and renewal of street lamps. These machines are equipped with 45-ft. ladders, which may also be used to give access to windows, well above ground level, for cleaning purposes.
Again, the low platform of the industrial truck makes it suitable for the conveyance of the comparatively small indivisible loads, weighing up to several tons, over distances of a mile or two between works. Some of these units can attain a speed of approximately 12 m.p.h., and are capable of climbing gradients up to about 1 in 7.
Sonic idea of the value of such units can be gathered from the fact that at a Liverpool dock a fleet of trucks is engaged on transporting, elevating and stacking produce in bags and in this way some 200,000 tons of goods per year are dealt with by one concern alone.
Gravel and sand, requiring short-distance transport, arc other commodities for the haulage of which the industrial truck is suitable, and several makers market models with high-sided tipping bodies intended for such duties.
Electric trucks have, of course, for some time been employed at large railway termini, and such machines are produced by Auto-Electric Vehicles, Ltd., Corclwallis Works, Maidenhead, Berks; Gillespie Partners, Ltd., Cecil House, Holborn Viaduct, London, E.C.1, Which markets the Elwell-Parker ; Greenwood and Batley, Ltd., of Leeds (Greenbat) ; Messrs. H. C. ,Slingsby, Ringsway, London, W.C.2; Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd.. Orwell Works, Ipswich; The Transporting Machinery and Engineering Co.,
Ltd., 76, Victoria Street, London, S.W.1 (Lizard), and Wingrove and Rogers, Ltd., of Arundel Chambers, Strand, London, W.C.2 (B.E.V.). Petrol-driven vehicles, although their exhaust gases may he slight, are, nevertheless, more suitable for work out-of-doors. They are manufactured by Douglas Motors, Ltd., of Kings. wood, Bristol ; G.W.K., Ltd., Cordwallis Works, Maidenhead, Berk s ; Messrs. Ff. C. Slingsby, Kingsway, London, W.C.2 (Slingsby-Brett) ; The Layeoek Engineering (lo., Ltd., Victoria Works, Millhouses, Sheffield (Lodemor) ; R. A. Lister and Co., Ltd., Dursley, Glos (Lister Auto-Truck), and the Redshaw Lister Woollen Machinery Co., Ltd., Spen Vale Works, Heckmondwike (Reliance). A further use for the industrial truck is that of timber haulage, for it is possible to buy an articulated fivewheeler incorporating an extensible trailer which has a maximum dimension of 21 ft. between the bolsters.
One concern produces a standard model with an enclosed tipping body, suitable for the collection of refuse and of waste material from works. There are also several types available which are equipped with cranes, these being particularly useful when large crates or bales have to be moved short distances.
Thus it will be seen that the field covered by these useful little machines is quite considerable. Probably the chief contributory factors to their increasing popularity are low costs—initial, establishment and running—and extreme ease of handling.