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3 ton End Tipping Steam Wagon.
STAND No. 10.
Steam-goods.
Load. Platform Space. T3703. Price. 3 tons ... 121b. Sin. S 4 tone ... 12 ft. 0 in.
&Stons .., 13-17 ft. Sin. S
An example exhibited at Olympia. Yorkshire Commercial Motor Co.. Ltd., Hunslet, Leeds,
tr HE Yorkshire Commercial Meter Co.
are showing some very fine wagons this year, and large numbers of customers will be attracted to their stand. The steam vehicle seems to possess a special attraction, and the feet that the worry of fuel cost is never absent from the minds of all persons who are interested in road transportation at the present day doubtless has a good deal to . do with this. As a steam vehicle, the Yorkshire undoubtedly possesses a number of attractive features, amongst which the peculiar design of the boiler and the vertical engine are probably the chief points which make an appeal to the dis criminating purohaser. A. particularly, good feature on the tipping wagon is the patent power-operated gear, the arrange meat of which is as follows: Upon the underside of the body are fitted brackets carrying rollers, which run in guide channels fitted upon the top of the frame of the chassis. Between the top channels of the chassis is carried a horizontal screw
fitted with a mat, to which is attached two levers, the other ends of the levers being attached te the underside of the body. By the revolution of this screw the body is moved backwards upon the frame of the chassis until two semi-circular brackets, attached to the underside
• of the body, come into contact with rollers fastened to the end of the frame of the chassis, thereby stopping the backward mofement of the body. Upon the top of the side frames of the chassis are fitted inclines, which slightly elevate the .front of the body before its backward movement is arrested, and thus relieve the levers and screw of any thrust. The body is now praotically in equilibrium, and the continued revolution of the screw elevates the front enti.of the body, and gives it the necessary angularity for discharging the load. By reversing the engine the operations are reversed, and the body returned to its original poaitien ready for travelling.
• The Yorkshire Commercial Motor Co. are to be congratulated upon their particularly fine exhibit.