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Light steel tipper

27th September 1968
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• A lightweight pressed-steel tipping body has been introduced by Steel Barrel Scammells and Associated Engineers Ltd_ Harelaw Industrial Estate. Stanley, Co. Durham. This company embodies the Anthony, Autolifts and Ca rrimore concerns.

The new tipping body is called the SBS Lightweight. A 20 per cent weight saving is claimed compared with ordinary steel bodies. No increase in price results. The sides have top and bottom box-section rails pressed into them to give a girder effect. The floor is of 10-gauge steel and the rest is of 12-gauge steel.

A Bedford KM 10ft wheelbase tipper with the 9 cu.-yd. SBS body is said to weigh 5 tons 6-1-cwt.