Lo-loading Northerner
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THE Northern Lo-Loader, a new trailer produced by Northern Vehicles Distributors Ltd, will be exhibited for the first time at Earls Court.
It's a standard 40-ft platform trailer with electro-hydraulic landing gear which enables the trailer to be lowered to the ground at the front end. The headboard which is specially designed, folds forward, turning it into a loading ramp.
Any vehicle or plant can be driven on to the trailer under its own_ power, or a winch could be fitted as an optional extra at the rear end and the equipment could be winched aboard electrically.
The driver then operates the controls and brings the trailer back in to the normal coupling position doing away with the necessity of cranes, fork-lifts and loading banks.