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The Latest Paris Municipal Wagons.

24th April 1913, Page 17
24th April 1913
Page 17
Page 17, 24th April 1913 — The Latest Paris Municipal Wagons.
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lu January last year we described and illustrated very fully the many different types of street orderly and sanitary wagons with which the municipality of Paris had then commenced to experiment. Now, after long experiments with both petrol and electric refuse wagons, the Municipal Council has decided upon the use of the latter for the city service.

At present the work is done by a contractor using horse-drawn vehicles. These carts travel round their respective districts early in the morning and collect the contents of the refuse bins which have been placed on the footpath earlier in the day by the concierge of the dwelling. As there is a bin at every door, progress is necessarily slow, and as the carts are unusually high a considerable amount of the refuse is blown about the streets in windy weather.

The new electrics are front drivers and steerers, having a very low underswept frame to which an all-metal body is secured by a hinge at the rear and is held down by clips in front. The roof of the body is in four sections, the two end ones being fixed and the two centre ones sliding on rails. It is never necessary to have more than a portion of the roof open, and owing to this and the lowness of the whole vehicle very little if any refuse is scattered

about. Although electricity is very little used for self-propelled vehicles in Paris, it has been adopted in this case owing to the difficulty ot obtaining an economical petrol vehicle to travel at the low rate of speed necessary for a garbagecollecting vehicle.

Recently, we wrote that the Paris Municipality has taken delivery of a fleet of lo De Dion-Bouton combined road sweepers and sprinklers. It has been decided that motor vehicles shall be used for the whole of the municipal services, and last year a public competition was held among some of the leading firms presenting different types of road sweepers and sprinklers. It has been settled that a combination

machine capable of street sweeping and watering will give the best allround service, and it is as a result of this decision that tho order has been placed with the De DionBouton factory. These vehicles have a four-cylinder motor in front and a water tank on the platform behind the driver's seat. The sprinklers are brought out in front of the vehicles, and the gear-driven brush is set under the frame. We fully described them in our last issue. In addition to this type the Paris Municipality has a number of large motor driven water wagons for use on very broad avenues, and a fleet of motor-driven street sweepers without sprinklers supplied by various factories.

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Organisations: Municipal Council
Locations: Paris

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