Northern show cleans up despite weather
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• by Phi Sampson
Just as Hurricane Floyd was ravaging the eastern seaboard of the USA, the North Yorkshire weather was doing its best to disrupt the annual Londonderry Garage Waste Management Vehicle Show. Not to be put off, CM braved the elements and headed off up the Ai. By providing a northern alternative to the I WM's Torbay show, Partek Cargotec distributor Londonderry Garage has seized the initiative by creating what has become a well-supported regional exhibition.
This year, in addition to one or two of the major chassis manufacturers, there was plenty for the visiting hardy souls to see.
MI Municipal Equipment Sales and Hire (MESH) was looking ahead with its Seddon-Atkinson Euromovermounted Semat Cargopac refuse collector. Unofficially dubbed the "Millennium Body", this rig now features an on-board computer as standard to provide a variety of driver and vehicle management functions. For example, it can be programmed to ask the driver if he has completed his daily checks. Until he confirms that he has, he will be going nowhere. Thereafter, the computer can record the number of operational sequences made by the bin-lifter, the compactor and so on; it will also report any faults. It's all satellite-compatible, so the data recorded can be downloaded back to HQ and analysed even before the crew return to base.
• Faun exhibited a Variopress 2000 refuse-collection vehicle. It's one of two sold this year to the City of Wakefield District Council, which has just ordered five more of the same. The Wakefield Variopress is a 22m3 body with Otto bin-lifting equipment fitted to a SeddonAtkinson crew-cab chassis. With a GVW of 26 tonnes the Variopress can handle payloads of up to 13.5 tonnes, depending on its chassis. • Terberg Matec UK showed two recycling vehicles from its compartmentalised range. First up was a two-compartment machine mounted on a 52-tonne CVW Scania 8x4 rigid chassis. Terberg is able to provide up to four compartments (which necessitates a shared bin-lift between
two of the compartments). The second Terberg on show was a two-compartment model fitted to an 18-tonne DIV 4x2
Seddon Atkinson chassis. It features moveable internal dividers so the size of compartments can be varied; this configuration offers a carrying capacity of eight tonne& • A familiar name making its debut under new ownership was Dennis Eagle, recently Sold by Mayflower Corporation to NatWest Equity Partners. On display at Northallerton were a 6x2 26-tonne GVW Twin Pack and a narrow-chassis Ex Cell 15 six-wheeler. The Twin Pack pictured here boasts 30% more body capacity than its predecessor, with 6.3m3 for recycling waste and 12.6m3 for domestic material. The Ex Cell 15 is finding favour among operat. tors who have to cope with narrow or restricted spaces. According to one operator, despite being just 2.2m wide, the vehicle can take a full 10-tonne payload.
7 On the Johnston Sweepers stand, mounted on an 18-tonne GVW Scania P94DB4x2NA 220 chassis, was this sweeper with a 625 high-pressure water system and an electric boom for gully emptying. It will be joining the Angus Heron Roadsweepers fleet in Bradford—and this is a state-of-theart road sweeper if ever there was one: features include allround air suspension, In-cab air conditioning and a sleeper
cab. Angus Heron
delivers its cleansing services in considerable style to a wide range of industrial and civil engineer ing customers around the UK.