G.P.O. Equipment

21st September 1962, Page 9

21st September 1962

Page 9

Page 9, 21st September 1962 — G.P.O. Equipment

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POST OFFICE engineers from all over the country visited an exhibition at Watford this week organized by the P.O. Engineering Dept., to see the latest trends and developments in a wide range of equipment and vehicles used for external construction work. An exhibit which attracted much attention was a line construction unit, the Tel-E-Lect, which is of American design and manufacture and is mounted on a diesel-engined B.M.C. 5-7-ton chassis. The unit incorporates a winch, a derrick with boom-extending stinger which rotates 360 degrees at a height of 33 ft. and a radius of 23 ft., a pole hole borer mounted on the derrick and a glassfibre personnel bucket mounted at the end of the stinger.

Also shown was a self-mobile air compressor, comprising a Land-Rovermounted Broom and Wade WR 100 single-stage rotary-vane air ,compressor, giving an output of 100 c.f.rri. at a pressure of 100 p.s.i.. and mounted below the vehicle floor. (The Commercial Motor, May 4, 1962.) A second self-mobile air compressor shown was the POwertrue (The Com117ffdal Motor, December 2, 1960), which comprises a Hydrovane 120 c.f.m., 100 p.s.i. compressor on a modified Thames 15-cwt. chassis. both vehicle and compressor being driven by a Ford 592E

discl behind the.cab. .