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THEgeneral impressions conveyed by an inspection of the machines on show this week, at the Public -Health Exhibition at the Royal Agricultural. Hall, London, N., are that the problems affecting refuse collection are being solved on practical and highly hygienic lines, and that A.R.P. equipment, which, in the early stages, was naturally of a somewhat indefinite character, has now settled down on lines which suggest a high degree of efficiency combined with a clean ensemble.
Many and worthy are the improve ments to be found in ambulance design and appointment and these features are ably demonstrated in a number of highly interesting exhibits.
The many problems attendant upon refuse collection have been attacked with such deliberation that claims can now be made that not a particle • of refuse need even be seen by the operatives, Of such machines one may mention the Ideal body on an A.E.C. Monarch chassis, and the new Pagefield Paladin exhibited on an Albion CL123 chassis.
The fanner depends an gravity for packing its load, the body being arranged to swing upwards to an angle of 123 degrees, which causes the contents of the rear-loading hopper to drop a considerable distance into the main compartment There is an arrangement at the back whereby dustbins can be emptied without any of the contents escaping. The body is of 15 cubic yds. capecity, but when packed the load is equivalent to 22 cubic yds.
On the Pagefield Paladin, which is shown by Walker Bros. (Wigan), Ltd., and which has a Transport handoperated moving floor, the main feature lies in the unloading of special cylindrical refuse bins through the roof of the body. The bin is wheeled into position on a trolley, is loosely clamped in a ring, and is elevated and tipped through an aperture normally covered by a slide. The latter opens as the bin approaches and closes immediately the bin is clear. Electrical operation is provided for, with push switches arranged at the ,rear of the. vehicle.
Then there is the ingenious Transport Propeller compression refuse collector with all-steel moving floor; the Dennis moving-floor vehicles far manual or power operation; an exampleof an Eagle 1t-24-cubic-yd.., all-steel, hand-operated moving-floor body on a. Thornycroft Sturdy chassis, and an
Eagle rear-loading Compressmore body on a second Sturdy chassis.
With a Scammell 15 h.p. mechanical horse as the tractive unit, Scarnmell Lorries, Ltd., shows an 18-cubic-yck barrier loader with twin-ram hydraulic gear, which makes it possible toincrease the effective load up to 23 cubic yds.
A particularly interesting machine is the new Morris-Commercial Carrimore low-loading refuse collector of 8 'cubic yds. capacity. The body is of the side loading type and is provided with power-operated, hydraulic end-tipping gear.
The Transport Engineering Co., Ltd., shows a fine combinationin -a 5-6-tort Morris-Commercial, equipped with a 12