A TANK WAGON FOR SPECIAL SERVICE.
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Novel Features of Design in a Guy Vehicle for Use in the Pottery Trade.
SPECIAL classes of trade often call for the use of vehicles of unorthodox design in order to enable efficient and economical transport service to be given, and many are the types of motor vehicle embodying features representing a departure from generally accepted practice which have been constructed to meet the requirements of a specific form of service. It may be that only the body is oF somewhat unusual design, but this factor in itself ssometimes4nectssitates modification in the chassis.liayout.
There are, of course, rainy instances where it is possible to use a:standard chassis for service of an unusuarnature, and such a case is indicated by the illustrations reproduced on this page which depict a special type of body mounted
on an example of the 8-ft, wheelbase chassis produced by Guy Motors, • Ltd., of Falling Park, Wolverhampton. This vehicle has lately been delivered" to Harrison and Son (Hanley), Ltd., and it is being used for delivering flint and stone ground in water. to the pottery
factories of the company.
The requirements of the user were first communicated to Guy Motors, Ltd., by the Newcastle (Staffs.) Motor Co., Ltd., and as it was obvious that special factors had to be considered certain detail features of the body design had to be carefully evolved. In the first place it was necessary to keep the two substances to be carried separate in order to be able to deliverfinto troughs leading to mixing machines located well above the ground-level. This condition, was met by utilizing a tank of oval section, divided into two 'compartments, each of which was provided with a filling orifice and an outlet pipe of a special form, so designed that it revealed a clear 3-in, opening when emptying the tanks.
In order to ensure that the inlet pipes passed over the top of the troughs it was essential to dispose them at a height. which was not less than 4 ft.
from the ground. This difficulty was overcome by mounting the rear end of the tank in suitable hinges -carried on the top of two vertical supports built on to the ends of the zhassis frame members. These supports -are of sturdy con.struction and are well braced up. The tipping of the tank to the rear in order to secure ready discharge of the eontents of each compartment is, as our pictures show, carried out by a handoperated single vertical screw situated immediately behind the driver's cab.
It was vital, to use a chassis with s
short wheelbase so that rough and tortuous passages could be safely negotiated and also to make some provision for compensating the relatively high centre of gravity resultant upon the need for elevating the rear end of the tank to a considerable degree. This was effected by dipping the torward end of the tank for about 2 ft. on to a tra,vel
ling cradle in such a manner as to distribute the weight evenly, The ample steering lock of the short wheelbase Guy chassis to which this unusual body is fitted, and the method of spring suspension, are features which render the vehicle eminently suitable for use in the special sphere of activity for which it has been designed.