Mobile Workshop for Heavy Plant
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REPAIR on site of heavy. plant and machinery, such as hulldozr5. excavators, snowploughs; road rollers and surfacers, is the object of a new mobil: workshop just delivered to the Chesh_re County Council roads and bridges department. The vehicle is based-on the 2-ton Commer Air-Van, a product of Dav...nport Vernon & Co. Ltd.. or High Street. High Wycombe, Bucks, which incorporates a proomwa.de WRI00 compressor.
Interior fittings and equipment have been installed to the County surveyor's requirenients.-'. They include a work bench, binning, fluorescent lighting fo • night operation, and clear panels in the roof. Air' tools which will be carried
include a cutter and grinder, in. drill. impact wrenches and pneumatic chises.
The vehicle is notable in having compressed air as the power source, the output comparing favourably with that normally available in static workshops By its use, the County Council will often be able to avoid the time consuming and expensive transit involved in returning heavy plant to base for attention.
An independent Cheek has been taken on sound levels; as a result of which the iinit is claimed _as probably the quietest (.:;:-npr,.-..ssor of its size. The Air-Van is to be exhibited .at the Public Works and
Municipal Services Exhibition in
Um. Tyne Bridge Scheme -C-A A NEW bridge of the bow string girder type, with two-level junctions with vS sting roads on each side of the river, is to he builtacross the Tyne between Seotswood and Ilaydort. The scheme win cost more than J.:2m., and the Minister of 'transport has made a grant almost flImy The .bridge will span he r:ver about 14 miles from its mouth and 140 ft. up-stream from the present Seotswood suspension bridge which was built in 1831 and strengthened a.century
Work on the scheme will start shortly :aid is expected to take about 34years In complete.