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Tanker Prints Fuel Delivery Tickets

25th April 1958, Page 45
25th April 1958
Page 45
Page 45, 25th April 1958 — Tanker Prints Fuel Delivery Tickets
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ANEW type of fuel tanker based on an American design is being used by Burnett and Hallamshire Fuel, Ltd., Sheffield, coal and oil fuel distributors. Based on a Leyland Comet forward-control chassis, the vehicle delivers a given amount of oil fuel to a high degree of accuracy, together with a ticket showing the volume dispensed.

The company already run more than 30 I.eylands on coal haulage from opencast sites to consumers, but have entered the oil-fuel trade because of the increased use of oil-burning appliances. The new tanker is greatly reducing delivery times.

Designed by Cdr. H. G. K. Bramah, of Burnett and Hallamshire, in conjunc

tion with Andrews Bros. (Bristol), Ltd., the tank manufacturers, the vehicle, is similar to those in service in America. Oil from the 1,500-gal. tank may be delivered in three different ways.

When the tanker cannot•reach the customer's tank, use is made of an 80-ft. reel of hose carried in a rear compartment. Two 15-ft. lengths of hose are carried inside the tubes along each side of the vehicle and can be used independently, or coupled to the 80-ft. reel.

A valve is fitted to the reel so that the tanker may be operated by one man, and the reel is self-coiling by means of a hydraulic pump. Delivery can also be made by pump through twin cocks at the rear underneath the doors of the hose compartment, and by gravity through a cock at the rear on the off side.

The compartment houses a Wayne flowmeter and ticket printer which records the fuel delivered. This figure is recorded on an automatically printed ticket, one copy of which is given to the customer as a receipt and another retained by the driver as a check. The door of the compartment opens to form a protective canopy in wet weather.

Up to 80 g.p.m. can be delivered. The vehicle is suitable for domestic deliveries, when amounts required are normally not more than 500 gal., and deliveries to garages and industrial premises where larger quantities are usually needed.

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Locations: Bristol, Sheffield

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