Speeding-up the Turn-round
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OADING time of metal windows has been reduced from around one and a half hours to as little as five minutes. following the introduction of the Cargon freighting system at the Wednesbury works of Henry Hope and Sons, Ltd. The dispatch department previously consisted of five off-set loading bays, fed from a storage area, where windows for dispatch were grouped to be hand-loaded on to vehicles.
Following a survey by Cargon Transport (Great Britain), Ltd., a division of Fisher and Ludlow, Ltd., 18 Cargons, Sig vehicle conversions and one traverser (virtually a mobile trolley for moving the Cargons transversely) were supplied. In addition, long rows of racks were erected, to accommodate the Cargons for pre-loading and to align them with the
• traverser, and the loading area was altered so that vehicles could load and unload end-on.
The difficulty of matching-up varying vehicle platform heights with one loading bank height was overcome by providing contoured concrete ramps, final adjustment and elimination of spring deflection being overcome by use of a simple hydraulic jack installation.
In operation, the system completely eliminates double handling by allowing orders to be packed on to the Cargons, the loaded units then being transferred to vehicles by means of the traverser.
Hope's say that the adoption of the
Cargon system has shown many advantages, particularly in the turn-round of vehicles, where, in sonic cases, there has -been a saving in time of 85 per cent. Besides this, at least two man-handling operations have been cut out and congestion in the loading area has been practically eliminated.
QUICKER WET GRAIN DELIVERIES THE first of a fleet of special bulk ' delivery vehicles has recently been supplied to English Grains Co., Ltd.. Burton-on-Trent. The vehicle is based on an Albion Chieftain 7-ton chassis and the bodywork was designed by Charrold, Ltd. The vehicle can deliver wet grain quickly and efficiently from brewer to farmer without the use of manual labour.
A conveyor built into the floor of the hopper-type body discharges the wet grain through a rear outlet on to an extension elevator. This elevator is stowed on the offside of the vehicle when not in use. A full load can be discharged in about 40 minutes.
£2 MILLION EXPANSION
BRITISH GEON, LTD. (jointly owned 1--1 by the Distillers Co., Ltd., and B. F. Goodrich Chemical Co.) is planning yet another expansion of its polyvinyl chloride plant at Barry, South Wales. The £2 million extension is scheduled for completion about the middle of next sear.