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17th March 1933, Page 82
17th March 1933
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Every Sphere in which Motor Appliances Can Be Em ployed is Adequately Covered

BRITAIN is fortunate in possessing a large number of makers of highly efficient municipal vehicles and appliances for utilization in all phases of its work in which motorization can be effected. Most local authorities are fully alive to the value of this equipment, although there are some still employing antediluvian means.

The Government move for economy has drastically curtailed expenditure during the past year, but the error of excessive limitation in this direction has been realized, and the demand for new machines for replacement or the inauguration of better services is increasing.

In these pages we have purposely refrained from dealing with the passenger side of the industry, because this was so fully treated with in our Passenger Vehicle Number published on February 10. For this reason, the names of a few well-known makers are mission., but practically every British manufacturer can supply vehicles such as refuse collectors, utilizing its own chassis and bodywork built by specialists. The same remark applies to certain other apparatus, such as gully and cesspool emptiers.

We will continue with notes upon the products of the various makers.

Apart from tipping wagons and buses, the vehicles made by Albion Motors, Ltd., Scotstoun, Glasgow, include other types which are of special use to .municipal cleansing departments. There are refuse collectors over a wide range of capacities, and the lighter models can be supplied on small wheels. The bodies can be of either steel or wood and equipped with sliding or hinged covers or, if a more elaborate design be required, the Eagle hygienic dustless type can be supplied in either 7 or 10-cubic-yd. Sizes.

A vehicle of special interest to lighting departments is the Albion tower wagon, which can be supplied to give an extended-platform height of 30 ft., and which can be lowered to give an overall height of only 12 ft. 6 ins. Lower tower wagons for tramway work, and crane lorries for the transport and easy handling of rails, are of interest to corporations which are operating tramways.

The recent repeat order for machines of the crane type, placed by the London County Council, is an indication of their suitability for this work. Other municipal types included in the Albion range are ambulances, library vans and buses specially equipped for carrying cripple children.

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Organisations: London County Council
Locations: Glasgow

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