Late Surprises at Public Works Exhibition
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rw0 last-minute surprises at the Public Works Exhibition at Olympia were both
Articulation System
Connection between the body and the 'actor unit is provided by a horizontal wivel, king post and wishbone assembly. his gives lateral articulation 20° either_ de of the vertical, and steering movelent of 180° about the wishbone. Two ydraulic rams provide 55° of tipping agle. Also giving 180° of steering angle is ie Dinkum Dumper which has a turning relic of I3-ft. radius. The overall ngth of the unit is 24 ft. 8 in. It is owered by a 52 b.h.p. oil engine driving trough a heavy-duty clutch to a sixnvard and two-reverse speed gearbox. he maximum road speed is 13.2 m.p.h. ■ ouble-acting hydraulic rams giving a pping angle of 65° and a specially laped body permit ease of loading and mplete discharge.
First Appearance
Making its first appearance in this mntry is the Nelson 200D tractor shovel chibited by the Merton Engineering Co., td., Feltham, Middx (Stand 118). Of merican manufacture, it features a 105 h.p. oil engine driving to all four heels via a torque converter, planetary ansmission and transfer gears. -A bucket E 2f-cu.-yd. capacity is fitted and a maxiurn discharge height of 9 ft. 6 in. is aimed. Hydrostatic transmission systems are :ing fitted to an ever-widening variety ! vehicles, and the latest example can be en on the Winget Challenge 6-cu.-yd. mcrete mixer, shown by Winget, Ltd., ochester, Kent (Stands 62/63).
On Mixing Drum
An hydrostatic transmission is used to ive the mixing drum and a Lucas ' 1,000 hydraulic pump is incorporated the system, which gives the driver singlever control for all functions of targing, mixing, agitating and dischargg. The discharge chute is pneumatically unrolled.
The Challenge mixer is mounted on an .E.C. chassis and the drive is taken from e engine crankshaft to the gearbox, and om there to a five-cylinder motor giving maximum speed of 47 r.p.m. A water eter control system is used, the water ing added under pressure. The tank pacity is 220 gal.
• Macclesfield Prosper
THE importance of customers being willing to testify in the traffic Courts to the need for greater capacity was stressed by Mr. F. C. Jackson, chairman of Macclesfield Transport, Ltd., at the company's 15th annual dinner. Their grotto traffic for the first 10 months of 1960 showed an increase of over 20 per cent. but business had been turned away because licensed vehicles were not available.
LICENCE REVOKED
A B licensee, Mr. Harold Fitzhugh, of Spondon, Derbyshire, had his licence revoked when he failed to appear at a public inquiry before the East Midland Licensing Authority, Mr. C. R. Hodgson, at Nottingham. The inquiry was held on the ground that Fitzhugh had, for the purposes of his application for a B licence, anil a variation thereof, made a false statement. Mr. H. Hayter, for the Licensing Authority, said that at Nottingham in September, Fitzhugh was fined £15 on three offences of unlawfully making a false statement to obtain the renewal or variation of the licence.
TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA BY ROAD L'OUR precision grinding machines weighing 4+ tons each started a 1,000-mile journey by road from Broadheath, Manchester, to Brno, Czechoslovakia, on Monday. They are the first of a consignment of 22 machines and they travelled on two British Road Services trailers, crossing the Channel from Tilbury to Antwerp on the drive-on-driveoff vessel " Bardic Ferry."