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Acton Cuts Its Cleansing Costs
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Interesting Facts Relating to the Operation of Largecapacity Mechanical-horse Refuse Collectors
TinHE municipal authorities at Acton are still fding that horses can perform useful work wheri employed in conjunction with Harrier tractor-trailer outfits of the mechanical horse type. This borough C0.11TiCil has recently taken possession .of three large-capacity refuse-collecting vans, which on their • rounds are drawn froni door to door by horses, but a Cob motive unit hauls them to and from the dump. This arrangement has proved to be most economical, as can be judged from the accompanying running-costs sheet issued by the borough engineer's department.
The Karrier Cob Senior tractor incorporates a sixcylindered engine developing up to 70 b.h.p. It is fitted with an automatic coupling gear by means of which trailers% can be attached and detached without the driver having to leave his cab. The front supporting wheels of the trailer are equipped with pneumatic tyres, whilst horse shafts can quickly be attached Or detached from the turntable. The shafts are equipped with small rubber-tyred jockey wheels, mounted on extended legs, which support them more or less horizontally, and thus enable the horse to be backed quickly into position.
Each of the 15-cubic-yd. van trailers is fitted..with a Transport moving floor, but is designed for side loading, c60
with three sliding covers per side. This arrangement gives rapid loading, the moving floor being' employed only for discharging the load. Theefficiency of this method is proved by the fact that ten or eleven loads can, on an average, be collected daily by the gang of 14 men, and the daily collection of refuse averages 26 tons.
Incidentally, the Cob Senior tractor, with its three
attendant trailers, has replaced four electric vehicles.
The cost figures shown below cover a period of 42 days from October 15 to December. 2, 1936.