Yorkshire : Stand 64.
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This old established company stages but one example of its products, and this is a six-tonner. This model has recently undergone sonic alteration in the matter of design, and the example which is shown at Olympia embodies these latest features. The machine in question is for Mr. J. G. Clayton, haulage contractor, of Huddersfield, and has the conventional hinge-sided lorry body, but this is of the tip variety, the tipping being operated alternatively by mechanically or hand-operated gear. The mechanical drive is secured by means of an easilyoperated clutch on the flywheel. The particular feature of this tipping gear is that it provides for the travelling backwards of the body into such a position, that it does not actually begin to tip until the point of support is over the back of the frame. This Yorkshire wagon has the usual vertical engine and the well-known double-ended Yorkshire boiler, which has given such good service for so many years past. Two special features which are embodied are the encased differential gear on the live axle, and the new front-axle suspension. Two laminated springs are now used, instead of the one as before ; the front ends of these are fixed to the frame, whilst their rear ends are attached by short shackles to the ends of a cross rocking bar, which latter is pivoted centrally to a special cross member, located immediately behind the boiler-line. Amongst recent orders secured for this company we would mention the 11th and 12th repeats, respectively, to C. and T. Faulkner and Co., Ltd., of Manchester, and three machines for Hadfields Steel Works, of Sheffield. In attendance on this stand during the Show will be Mr. Lewin, the general manager, and Mr. Pickering, the representative for the South of England.