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20th April 1926, Page 18
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INSULALD VAN . Port of Manchester Road Service, Ltd., use many trailers in connection with their transport activities ; that shown above being a Dyson carrying a lift-van body.

the meantime as to the likelihood of the suspense being of long or short duration. This is not an experience which is confined to any one firm of haulage contractors. All those engaged in meat transport have to prepare for such unfortunate losses. It is not surprising, therefore, to learn that some motor owners are now asking that when employed on transport in connection with cargoes carried on the Australian boats, they should be paid a time rate instead of being remunerated on a tonnage basis. The Argentine boats are loaded and unloaded on a much more convenient plan, and when the steamer arrives the captain supplies a plan showing the location of consignments. This provides an index as to the ready availability of specific cargoes.

So far as the loading of steamers at the Liverpool docks is concerned, when delays are experienced in the getting together of full loads for transport inland, the facts are usually notified to the head office of the transport department of the Port of Manchester Road Service, Ltd., and the motor or motors may either move off with only a part of a load or complete the consignment from a cold storage.

The company undertake all their own repairs and maintenance of steam wagons, and they have fine and well-equipped workshops, in which all classes of difficult repair jobs can be undertaken. One vehicle is always in dry dock undergoing overhaul; the other vehicles come in for attention in rotation. THEpioneers of the modern development of the sixwheeled vehicle, Scammell Lorries, Ltd., have now produced a 9-ton platform lorry mounted on 10 Dunlop .

pneumatic tyres, 40-in. by 8-in. The load on the tyres is thus well within their capacity and users of heavy trimsport wilt, therefore, be much interested in the prospect which the new vehicle opens up. Its use is not limited to ordinary roads, for it is intended for running across country on Soft ground, and already orders have been received for machines of this type for the carrying of pipes. derrick sections and machinery in the oilfields of Venezuela. Australia is another country • buying these machines .equipped, for tte most part, with tank. wagons of the frameless type.

• The wheels are shod with single tyres at the front, the driving and carrier wheels having twin tyres. The wheels are the standard detachable disc with hubs that embody departures from regular. Scammell practice. All the hubs are mounted on Timken roller bearings, which are fitted on steel sleeves having ring nuts split and locked by clamp-. jug bolts at their outer ends to adjust the bearings. Special felt washers exclude all mud and dirt, whilst the particular advantage of the construction is that each hub, complete with its bearings, can be removed as a unit from the axle without disturbing any adjustments. This is of particular importance when relining brake shoes, etc., and it enables the bearings to be adjusted before the hub is placed on the axle.

Two spare wheels are carried, these being bolted under the frame to brackets which do not show in our illustration, a light pulley block being provided to lift each wheel and tyre into position against the underface of its bracket—a desirable provision in view of the fact that a wheel and tyre complete weighs 2 cwt.

Mounted on the gearbox • is a single-stage air-compressor for inflating the tyres, whilst the vehicle is also fitted with a very powerful Vandervell electric starter capable of starting the engine instantly from cold.

As some of the vehicles of the type on order will be working in a dusty atmosphere, a special air cleaner has been fitted to the carburetter intake. This consists of a large perforated aluminium shell having an internal grid covered with folds of felt, providing a filtering surface of many square feet. This filter is placed in a box under the driver's seat and is connected to the engine by a large flexible metallic tube. The brakes on the carrier are operated by the patented Scammell mechanism, which, it will be remembered, embodies a pin thrust upwards through the axis of the turntable by a bell-crank lever. On the machine supplied to the Venezuela Oil Concessions, Ltd., which will be operated by drivers of very poor physique, a second handbrake lever is provided on the near side and can be operated by the driver's mate.

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