A TAILBOARD STEP.
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WE ARE always pleased to receive information regarding devices which will facilitate the reduction of terminal delays and the amount of work required in loading and unloading motor vehicles.
One of the simplest, and yet most
practical, which we have had the opportunity of examining recently is a SpeCig drop tailboard designed by Mr. W. F. French, Junr., of the United Service Transport Co.-, Ltd., 314, Righ Road, 13alhain, London, S.W.17, and provisionally protected. The arrangement of this
tailboard is so simple that it is somewhat surprising it has not been employed before. Its general construction will be -seer' from the illustrations appended.
The tailboard strengthening irons tali hinged to two sliding pieces, each of which can move up and down on a drop bar, but is prevented from sliding right off the bar by a stout pinWhen the tailboard is i.n position, no weight is carried by the hinges, the tailboard merely resting on the floor of the body and being kept in position in the usual manner. When it is released, the hinge pins drop to the ends of their travel, and the tailboard is supported at its top by means of chains of suitable length. It thus forms a type of step on to which goods pan be hoisted before packing into the vehicle.
Such a device is particularly useful where the loading platform of the vehicle is sornewhat high. It may be quite easy lb lift an article a little distance, but it may be considerably more difficult to lift it right on to the vehicle, whereas if this type of tailboard be fitted, the work of lifting is facilitated, on the principle that it is far easier to climb two low steps than one of double the height.