A Multi-purpose Vehicle for Land Work
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A Morris-Commercial 2-tonner Adapted for Parks and Golfcourse Duty by the Allan Taylor Engineering Co.
THE latest product of the Allan Taylor Engineering Co., High Street, • Wandsworth, London, S.W.18, is a vehicle specially designed for the use of park and golf club authorities for the transport and haulage. of mowing machines. The basis of the vehicle is a Morris-Commercial 2-ton chassis, which has been modified by replacing the two rear longitudinal springs by one of the transverse type, and by redesigning and strengthening the rear end of the chassis frame to provide a low and strong drawbar member.
The .chassis carries a tipping body of steel-lined oak construction. The "tipping gear is of the usual hand-operated type, -special. atterition'having, been paid to the positioning of the -body-securing claws—which contact with two 1-in-diameter steel bolts—to -secure even balancing of the tip.
Five mowing machines Can be carried. They are hauled on to the platform by means of a hand-operated winch mounted below the rear of the body. The winch cable passes below the body to a guide roller at the forward end. Another feature of the body is that, in addition to its being suitable for the transport of soil or other materials for parks, etc., as well as for carrying and hauling mowers, it is readily detachable. Removal is effected by tipping the body until the rear supporting brackets come into contact with the ground.
Another turn or two of the tippinggear handle further raises the. body until two tubular struts can be fixed in position, the holding claws at the same time clearing their bolt counterparts. The worm nut of the tipping gear is made in halves, secured hy thumbscrews, so that finally, all that is fleece sary to draw the chassis away from the body is to remove the forward pOrtion of the worm nut, thus freeing the worm column from the body.
The rear tyres are of the crosscountry pattern.