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Picture 1
Avon Rubber's largest TIR consignment to date, over 2,000 car tyres worth £10,000. leaving the company's Melksham plant for Dusseldorf. The "goose-necktrailer, made by Booth Trailers of Oldham. is the biggest unit of its kind at present permitted on British roads. Specially designed for high cubic capacity loads, it is 40ft long with a loading height of 10ft as against the usual 8ft.
Picture 2 One of the latest eight-wheel mixers to be delivered to the Tilcon Group for addition to its Trumix fleet of sixand eight-wheel Fodens. It is fitted with an all-metal hydraulically mounted cab. Gardner 61.X engine, 12-speed gearbox and 8 cu.yd. Ritemixer equipment.
Picture 3 The first Murfitt bulk pneumatic vehicle fitted to a Volvo six-wheeler has interesting positioning of the body, arranged to obtain the optimum in axle-loading under the C and U Regulations. A Godfrey 1.800 Rootes-type blower and Murfitt rotary seal were specified by the operators, West Cumberland Farmers Trading Society, as some of the discharge points are extremely difficult "blows".
Picture 4 This 32-ton gtw. 36ft-long coil-carrying semitrailer is one of six built for the Cardiff depot of BRSL by Highway Trailers (Great Britain) Ltd, Southampton. It can also be used as a flat platform unit for general haulage, as shown in this picture where the tractive unit is a Bristol.
Picture 5 Complex-looking back end of these York Freightmaster van trailers, operated by Reads Ltd., Liverpool, is designed to make things easy for the driver. The extra-deep (57in.) load-bearing tailgate is divided and sprung for easy one-man handling and a section of the rear cross-member swings down to form an access step. Tailgate supports pull out from under the lower door-frame member. The vans are 36ft long, 8ft 2in. wide and 9ft high inside.