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LATEST MODELS for Cleansing
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WHAT are collectively termed the public cleansing services seem to be taken _ very much for granted by most people, but the residents of Torquay are not likely to be in this danger next week while the 59th annual conference of the Institute of Public Cleansing is taking place,
Versatility is the keynote of the machines to be on view, which will include the latest in refuse collectors, gully, and cesspool emptiers, sweepers, snow ploughs and so on. Among the wide range of appliances will be models to suit the needs of large and small municipal undertakings.
On Wednesday, the vehicle exhibits of some 25 companies will be here for inspection and, where possible, demonstrated, whilst earth-moving equipment will show its paces on Thursday.
New vehicles of interest will include a Bedford-Eagle refuse collector employing a Continental system offered for the first time in this country and described on page 669. A Bedford-Lacre road sweeper powered by the new Bedford oil engine will be on public show in. Britain for the first time, whilst an Eagle Compressmo re refusecollection body and Yorkshire 800-gal. gullyand cesspool-emptying equipment
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will be seen on new Thames Trader 5-ton chassis.
A Seddon-Eagle Compressmore l624cu.-yd. refuse collector to be shown by Seddon Diesel Vehicles, Ltd„ is based on a Mark 15 I4-ft. 6-in.-wheelbase municipal chassis powered by a Perkins P6 oil engine. The crew cab was designed with emphasis • on wide and easy access on the near side for six or seven men,
Atkinson's Agricultural Appliances, Ltd., are to display. one of their gritter bodies mounted on a Karrier Bantam chassis, the machine having .a capacity of 2-3 tons.
Three vehicles will form the exhibits of the Eagle Engineering Co., Ltd., although Eagle products will also be well represented by several chassis manufacturers. A major attraction will be the new Speedyload refuse collector based on a Bedford 7-ton chassis.
A 12-cu.-yd. side-loading refuse vehicle with an all-steel body having four sliding covers on each side is to appear on a Thames forwardcontrol chassis with an Eagle six-seat crew cab, There will also be a 1,000 gal, gully and cesspool emptier with an A.E.C. Mercury chassis and cab.
Two Thames Trader 5-ton chassis will be displayed by the Fold Motor Co., Ltd. One will have a 12-20-cu.-yd. Eagle Compressmore refuse-collection body and six-seat crew cab, whilst the other will be equipped as an 800-gal. gully and cesspool emptier with bodywork and apparatus by the Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Co., Ltd. Both will be powered by the Ford fourcylindered oil engine.
Other models to be shown are a Thames-Eagle 2-cu.-yd. refuse collector on a 10-cwt. chassis'. a 7-cu.-yd. model
on a Thames 3-ton chassis and cab, with bodywork by Tuke and Bell, Ltd., and a 10-cu.-yd. refuse collector on a Thames 4-ton chassis and cab, also with Tuke and Bell bodywork.
A characteristic of the Gibson Pendulum refuse collector to be shown by John Gibson and Son, Ltd., is the low maintenance cost achieved by the use of the minimum number of working parts.
The 15-20-cu.-yd. body is mounted on an Albion FT.37.EL chassis with crew cab. The underbody compression ram is reported to have proved highly successful and be giving even greater compression than that obtained previously. Modifications include a new dust excluder to prevent dust being swept back on the return stroke of the barrier, a full-width rear step, a deeper hopper, a deeper compression face and a one-piece rear door. Glover, Webb and Liversidge, Ltd., will be showing six vehicles, of which the largest is a Transport 40-cu.-yd. hulk refuse carrier based on a Foden F.G.6/24 chassis. This machine is arranged for overhead loading from hoppers, conveyors or from tipping platforms, and is equipped with a heavyduty version of the Transport all-steel moving floor.
A Transport 18-cu.-yd. dual-tip ground-loading refuse collector with load packing by vertical tipping, and a 14-cu.-yd. Derby-type side-loading model based on a Karrier Gamecock chassis will also be on view. A Transport Senior dual-tip ground-loading refuse collector derived from the 18-cu.-yd. model is to be seen mounted on a Karrier heavy-duty chassis with Rootes two-stroke oil engine and 8.2520-in. tyres.
Designed expressly for use in narrow lanes and backways, the Transport 8 10 Cu. yd. moving floor refuse collector is to be shown on a Karrier Bantam chassis and combines manceuvrahility with a reasonable capacity and ground loading. A 15-cwt. 4.1-cu.-yd. low-loading salvage trailer incorporates a special drawbar for use with rear-loading vehicles and independent wheel suspension.
Apart from two pedestrian-controlled Snow-Boy snow ploughs, one of which is available with a new crawler track, the Rolba Co., Ltd., are to exhibit for the first time in this country a new rotary snow plough with a driver's heated cab.
Known as the type 2012, it is powered by a Volkswagen industrial petrol engine of 28 h.p. fitted with a special gearbox giving four speeds for the road wheels and two speeds for the snowcutting and ejecting device. Steering is hydraulically operated and gives a minimum turning circle of 20 ft.
Average snow-clearing capacity is 190 tons an hour, with a clearing width of 3 ft. 3 in. to a depth of 6-7 ft. The snow-cutting device can be dismantled and replaced by a street brush or platform, enabling the machine to remain in service all through the year.
All the exhibits of Karrier Motors, n14 Ltd., except one, will be refuse collectors. The sixth will be a Karrier-Yorkshire 800-gal. cesspool-emptier based on a Gamecock chassis of 9-ft. 7-in. wheelbase and fitted with a Routes 75 b.h.p. oil engine.
Powered by the Karrier four-cylintiered light oil engine, which develops 54 b.h.p., a Bantam 7-cu.-yd. refuse collector has a loading height of A ft. 8 in. and is devoid of obstructing wheel' arches. Power-operated hydraulic endtipping gear gives a controlled angle of tip of up to 50°.
Gamecock chassis will be used for three other refuse collectors—an 18-cu.yd. dual-tip model, a 12-cu.-yd. and a 10-cu.-yd. type.
A Karrier-Transport LoadmastFr compressing refuse collector uses a method of compressing refuse which allows a much greater weight of material to be encompassed than its capacity of 20 cu. yd., excluding hopper, indicates. The fully automatic hydraulic compression mechanism embodied in the hopper at the rear of the alloy body lies under the direct control of the loaders. The crew cab seats six loaders in addition to the driver.
Among their exhibits, Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., will have a BedfordLacre sweeper powered by the new Bedford 97 b.h.p. oil engine. The machine has a front wire gutter brush and a narrow-width main brush. Both are fully floating and maintain close contact with the road. The brushes are raised hydraulically, as is the 4-cu.-yd. all-steel body. Spray nozzles below the front bumper are supplied from a 180gal. water tank.
A forward-control conversion and crew cab by G. and E. Neville and Son. Ltd., are to be seen on an Eagle-bodied 7-cu.-yd. side-loading refuse collector employing a Bedford 3-ton long-wheel
base chassis. A Bedford-Eagle 750800-gal. gully and cesspool-emptier, having a 5-ton long-wheelbase chassis, and a 12-20-cu.-yd. Compressmore refuse collector on a Bedford 6-ton chassis, will also be present.
One of the smallest •gully-emptiers available, with a width of only 4 ft. 3 in., the Phoenix Minor is intended for use on back-street gullies and in area;
of restricted access. It will be shown by the Phoenix Engineering Co., Ltd., together with their Ohio-Dorset frost gritter, which has a spread of up to 20 ft.
The Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Co., Ltd., are to display five vehicles, of which the Litterlifter sweeper appeared at last year's conference as a prototype. Powered by a 5-h.p. petrol engine, the machine has since been developed and fitted with a cab, controls, two scarifying brushes, road equipment and improved suction lift.
An 800-gal. gully-emptier mounted on an Albion MR7N Claymore chassis introduces a new feature in appliances of this type—a jack-knife door on the near side, which improves cab access. Another interesting point is a stick box on the side of the chassis. This is emptied by dropping the bottom on the tip.
An 800-gal. inframe gully-emptier on a Karrier Gamecock chassis of 9-ft. 7-in. wheelbase, a 1,000-gal, cesspool-emptier with nightsoil equipment on a Karrier Superpoise 5-ton, 14-ft. 1-in.-wheelbase chassis, and a Karrier-based heavy-duty road sweeper will also be on show.
The sweeper has a strengthened rear door and an improved hydraulic motor for the scarifying brush. Body capacity is 3 Cu. yd., and 200 gal. of water can be carried. A rotary-paddle elevator enables large objectg to be picked up.
The Heron 7-8-cu.-yd, side-loading refuse collector mounted on a shortwheelbase chassis and incorporating
the Perkins P4 oil engine will be one of the exhibits of Dennis Bros., Ltd. Particular attention has been paid to the avoidance of external projections, cab front corners being chamfered. whilst the mudguards are of rubber. A 22-24-cu.-yd. version of the 18-cu.yd. Paxit II refuse collector, designated the Paxit Major II, will also be on show, together with a Paxit 11, a 25-cu.-yd. Paxit Major refuse collector with hydraulic jacking trolley for easy bin transfer, a short-wheelbase chassis with 12-14-cu.-yd. forward and rearward-tipping refuse body, and a gullyand cesspool-emptier with monitor-type suction arm. Lacre Lorries, Ltd., are to show a model SA sweeper-collector on a Bedford D4A left-hand-drive 4-ton chassis. The machine is designed exclusively for channel sweeping. Hydraulic equipment lifts the brushes and raises the 4-cu.-yd. body for trimming and tipping the load. Six S.D. W-type vehicles will form the exhibits of She!yoke and Drewry, Ltd. They comprise two l6-18-cu.-yd. fore-and-aft tippers, a container bulk loader for refuse removal from large premises, a I3-cu.-yd. Chelsea sideloader, a I,100-gal, gullyand cesspool-emptier with Reavell rolling-drum exhauster, and a 1,100-gal. cesspoolemptier equipped with a nightsoil hopper.
A 12-cu.-yd. moving-floor refuse collector and a 9-cu.-yd. side-loading refuse collector will represent Scammell Lorries, Ltd. A Scarab 3-ton prime
mover with Scammell M.H. automatic coupling gear is used in each case. Mounted on an Austin chassis, suction cleaner which is said to be.. remarkably effective in picking up normal street litter, leaves, surface road chippings and so on without recourse to brushes, will be the principal exhibit of Johnston Brothers (Contractors), Ltd. Examples of their Model 4 batteryelectric street orderly trucks arc to be shown by Sidney Hole's Electric Vehicles, Brighton. One has an aluminium body to hold 12 portable bins each of 3i-cu.-ft. capacity, whilst the other will have a 2-cu.-yd. hydraulic end-tipping body. Fully loaded, their operating range is 10-12 miles.
Snow Blown 60 ft.
Incorporating a fan fed by two augers, the Bunce snow blower mounted on a Nuffield oil-engined tractor is to be one of the machines displayed by William Bunce and Son, Swindon. The appliance normally blows snow to a distance of sonic 60 ft., but can be fitted with an adjustable exhaust outlet for loading vehicles.
Of 16-24-cu.-yd. capacity, a Cornpressmore-Paladin body on a Dennis Paxit 13-ft. 6-in.-wheelbase chassis is to be shown by Walker and County Cars, Ltd. The Paladin system is designed to handle storage containers in large premises, markets and so on, emptying being by insertion, as opposed to exchange.
Shefflex, Ltd., Sheffield, will display
an 18-cu.-yd. patent dustless selfloading and packing refuse collector based on a Dennis Pax chassis with Perkins P6 oil engine. There are a sixseat cab and a 2-cu.-yd. salvage container, whilst the loading height can be varied from 12 in, above road level to suit requirements. Developed over the past few years by a Swedish company, the Verro pneumatic sweeper is to be exhibited by Alfred Miles, Ltd., Tewkesbury Road, Cheltenham. This appliance is equipped with a high-powered suction unit capable of lifting heavy particles, such as steel bolts, and incorporates a hydraulically driven and elevated heavyduty gutter brush with steel bristles. mounted behind the near-side front wheel.. The prototype is propelled by an 84-b.h.p. petrol engine and has a 70-b.h.p. oil engine for the suction-fan drive, but both units are likely to be oil engines on the production range. Included in the exhibits of Lewin Road Sweepers, Ltd., will be a sprinklersweeper-collector with a sweeping width of 4 ft. 9 in., and a similar machine based on an oil-cngined chassis. _ Loading shovels and other earthmoving equipment will be demonstrated by Bowmaker (Plant), Ltd., W. E. Bray and Co., Ltd., David Brown Industries, Ltd., Chaseside Engineering Co., Ltd., Ernest Doe and Sons, Ltd., Mobile Power (London), Ltd., Saville Tractors, Ltd., Walkers and County, Cars, Ltd., Thomas W. Ward, Ltd., and F. E. Weatherill, Ltd.