Adroit—that's the Matbro Swinglift
20th January 1967, Page 47
20th January 1967
Page 47
Page 47, 20th January 1967
— Adroit—that's the Matbro Swinglift
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THE NEW Matbro S 120 Swinglift forklift truck has successfully demonstrated its manoeuvrability in timber storage yard gangways narrowed from 22 ft. to 14 ft. The demonstration. at Samuel Williams Ltd.. Dagenham Dock, was designed to prove that the capacity of a 10-acre timber storage site could be doubled if gangway widths were narrowed.
The 6-ton-capacity fork-lift, with a lifting mast slew of 90 degrees, acts as a conventional front loader when going into the stack to extract the required package. It then reverses and turns beneath its load which remains parallel to the stack, in the manner of a sideloader. J.D.