Whale fills a vacuum
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WHALE 'tankers of Ravenshaw Lane, Solihull, West Alidlands has built a highthroughput vacuum tanker which, it is claimed brings European type industrial waste-handling methods to Britain for the first time.
The tanker, called the Continental, is fitted with high-performance heavy duty equipment which brings its unladen weight up to -12.2 tonnes (12 tons), 3 tonnes (3. tons) • heavier than a normal Whale tanker.
Unlike conventional specification tankers now in use in Britain, says Whale, the Continental is built to performance standards suitable for 24-hour working. It has an exhauster v th tw irt the throughput of the biggest units currently used for intermittent 1.vork in British N-actium tankers.
First of the 13,630-litre (3,0(l0-gal) (ontinental tankers is being supplied to Arfaz Ltd in It is fitted on a DAF 2205 DU six-whee chassis which has a ZI; gearbox and pto.
Tank is 1,8rn (fit t) in diameter and hi' eight retaining clamps to hold the door against a pressure of 4.21:g :stun (60psi), 'there are no internal baffles or strengthening members as all necessarN supports are in the form of external flanges.