R.H.E. Mechanizes Handling M ECHAN ICA L means being adopted by

26th September 1952, Page 70

26th September 1952

Page 70

Page 70, 26th September 1952 — R.H.E. Mechanizes Handling M ECHAN ICA L means being adopted by

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the Road Haulage Executive to speed up the handling of traffic at depots were demonstrated at the Battersea Wharf goods station of British Railways, this week.

A normal A.E.C. eight-wheeled platform lorry was shown being loaded by a Lansing-Bagnall pallet truck and a Ransomes 2-ton fork-lift truck. Two methods of transferring a pallet-load from the rear of a covered vehicle to the front were demonstrated. The Maudslay 6-tonner with a Transport moving floor and a Foden eight-wheeler of the R.H.E. Bury St. Edmunds group with a Jekta telescopic body both received stacks from the Ransornes machine, The loads were moved forward by the body mechanisms. Pallets with rollers that could thus be manceuvred were shown.

A particularly interesting development was a fork-lift attachment for dealing with parcels traffic without using pallets. It had 12 4-ft. forks at 6-in. intervals, and was used in conjunction with a wooden framework, between the slats of which the forks could penetrate. Loads are made up on the framework and can be raised as a mass by the attachment.

It is necessary to have similar slatting on the vehicle floor, so that the forks may be withdrawn when a load is deposited. This may be arranged transversely for side loading or longitudinally for end loading. An alternative is to make the vehicle floor of corrugated metal.