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Time at Gasworks
T IME occupied in emptying retorts I at the Hyde works of the North Western Gas Board has been reduced by a quarter following the adoption of hand-operated tippers designed and made at the works and mounted on Brush electric-truck chassis.
Each truck empties 28 retorts and delivers the coke to the grader 15 times every 24 hours. Each operation takes 45 minutes, against the 60 minutes formerly taken by a petrol vehicle. The cost of charging batteries is only 2s per day against 25s. spent on fuel for the petrol vehicles.
The tipping pan, which holds 8 cwt.
of coke, is of metal, and is mounted on box girders welded to a shortened Brush standard chassis and swung on stub axles. Discharge of the load is obtained by releasing a catch attached to the box girder at the front. The pan falls with its own weight. The return is by a sharp downward pull on the handle welded to the front of the pan, which is then automatically secured by the catch.
The trucks, in addition to being faster in operation and cheaper to maintain than petrol vehicles, are not affected by the dust, steam and, occasionally, water from the retorts as the petrol vehicles were. The chassis were supplied through the Lancashire distributor, Jewsbury's Motors. Lid., Chapel Street, Manchester, 3.