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Keeping clean with useful utilities
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• A tipping vehicle, under 3 tons unladen and completed only last month, was on show at the Works and Highways exhibition at Hastings on Wednesday and yesterday.
This was the British Leyland Terrier TR 650 /Telehoist Cheltonian tipper with allsteel dropside body and tailboard 11ft long, 7f1 wide and 20in. deep. The loading height is under 40in., the lowest that the rear wheel and axle rise will allow. There is a choice of Edbro tipping gear.
With a 113in.-wheelbase and a gross vehicle weight of tons, the vehicle has a capacity of 3.5 cu yd.
This could be a useful utility vehicle for so many of the lightweight odd jobs which arise in local authority work and it has the added attraction that the driver does not need an hgv driving licence.
First exhibited last year as a prototype, the Melford Precinct sweeper, exhibited by Melford Engineering Ltd of Sutton, Ely, Cambs, was demonstrated as a production model.
Designed for use in precincts, subways, car parks and other areas which are difficult of access, the machine is 4ft 3in. wide and has a turning circle of 1 lit. Powered by a Ford 1600 cc engine, it has automatic transmission and a maximum road speed of 25 mph. For sweeping, the speed can be varied up to 7 mph.
The hopper capacity is 11 cu yd.
The company exhibited its range of small trucks with fixed or tipping bodies on modified Reliant 700cc TW9E chassis as well as the Melford /Reliant suction sweeper.
An 1100gal capacity gully /cesspool emptier was presented by Shelvoke and Drewery Ltd, Letchworth, Herts. The SD 1100 is mounted on a purpose-built chassis with a wide-opening rear door. The vehicle is 7ft 6in. wide with a wheelbase of 10ft 4in. and a gross weight of 11 tons.
Power is provided by a Perkins 6.354 diesel engine fitted with a 14in. diameter clutch. Transmission is through a five-speed gearbox.
The tank is divided into two compartments which can be interconnected and the counter-balanced suclion arm has a traverse of 270deg. There are gully-pipe securing clamps on each side of the vehicle.
Pumping is by an exhauster driven from a pto and surplus water can be drained off leaving dry sludge for unloading.
On the vehicle exhibited, additional optional equipment included high-pressure street-washing equipment with pavement wash and sprinkler, a nightsoil hopper attachment and enclosed hose boxes. Another gully emptier was the Spartan from Fergussons (Motor Engineers) Ltd, Hilsea, Portsmouth. Built on a British Leyland Boxer BX 1200 chassis, this vehicle is powered by a Leyland series 6-98 six-cylinder 5.7-litre vertical diesel engine with a 13in clutch and five-speed gearbox.
With a capacity of 1200gal, the Spartan has Edwards Bros. tipping gear, a fully opening rear door and a vacuum /pressure pump rated at 120 cfm. There is a bearingmounted gully arm and remote control of the changeover valve from the gully downpipe handle which permits the operator to back flush without having to move from the gully. Washdown facilities for the rear door following tipping are also provided.
A load-sensing valve is fitted as standard.
The Envec group was represented by the well-known Yorkshire Mark IV suction road sweeper from Yorkshire Vehicles Ltd, Leeds. This is the machine which, the maker claims, is the only vehicle of its type in Europe incorporating a compression plate to squeeze the load so that excess water can be drained off thus increasing the payload considerably. It also discharges the load so that tipping is unnecessary. The TG compact suction sweeper from Lacre Ltd of St Albans, also on show, was described in Commercial Motor of June 18 1971, when the technical editor conducted a road test of the vehicle.
Simon Engineering Ltd, Dudley, Worcs, displayed its LF7 hydraulic platform mounted on a British Leyland 420 FG chassis with a 114in. wheelbase.
On this chassis, outrigger jacks are not used lateral stability being obtained by a torsion bar built into the subframe above the rear axle.
The equipment incorporates all the usual features of the larger platforms which include a dual levelling-road system in the lifting booms and a positively levelling glassfibre cage.
Winter maintenance equipment was represented by a rotary snowblower and a permanently mounted gritter from Rolba Ltd, East Grinstead.
The R-200 snowblower has a purposebuilt chassis and is powered by a 66 hp air-cooled VW petrol engine, through a manual six-speed gearbox and hydrostatic transmission. The operator has variable control over the forward speed, while snowclearing, through a single lever. The clearing width is 1.4m, the depth 1.35m and the clearing capacity 300 tons an hour (max).
The HHS /P Rolba /Weisser gritter has a hydraulically driven agitator and screwfeed mechanism. The hydraulically driven spinner disc is fed through a 360deg feed nozzle to provide a variety of spreading patterns including forward spreading.
As the drive is taken from the vehicle's prop-shaft, the operation of the gritter mechanism is related to the speed of the carrier. A control box in the cab provides remote control over the rate and width of spread.
Ancillary equipment on show included the mobile compressor based on a Series Ill diesel Land-Rover and the Harrier digger based on a modified 109in. LandRover from Airdrive Ltd, High Wycombe; a recently introduced trailer-mounted leafblower from Applied Cleaning Equipment Ltd Falkirk; and the wheelcleaner from Saunders Transport Ltd, London, which was described in Commercial Motor last year.
Vehicles for hire included a Ford Transit 175 with a 35cwt payload Perkins Tipmaster body and a Ford D0707 120in. wheelbase vehicle with a Telehoist 4-ton tipping body from Cross Rent-a-Tipper Ltd.