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Brian Chalmers-Hunt reviews rie Solid Wastes Management exh'ibition at Scarborough. Harry Roberts took the pictures.
VISITORS to this year's Institute of Solid Wastes Management exhibition at Scarborough last week could not help but notice the continued development and wide range of specialist plant and vehicles for the industry.
Compaction of waste, skips, demountables, oneman operation and the impact of the Health and Safety at Work legislation have tended to make vehicles more sophisticated.
1 The Buckingham 1100gallon combined gulley and cesspit emptier fitted with branch sewer-jetting equipment for operation on sewers up to 12in bore. This unit is fitted with the MEC 8000P (282cuft/ min at 1400rpm) air-cooled exhauster with built-in pressure lubrication system for high performance vacuum and pressure.
2. Whale's semi-trailer built for Manchester Tankers. Probably the most important single safety contribution to a vacuum tanker is the opening rear door which by virtue of its size is out of the way, and is unlikely to be knocked open by a glancing blow from another vehicle or against roadside furniture. Access manholes are recessed and twinned inlet and outlet valves guard against leaks.
3. Fergussons' new Mk 3 gulley emptier retains the Mk 2's powerful 350 cuft / min compressor and 6in loom for highspeed emptying operations. Its jetting facilities are based on 200ft of 1.5in reel-mounted hose connected to a highpressure pump operating at 2000psi at a rate of 15 gall min.
4. New to Scarborough is the Edbro Tip-a-Lift large-capacity mobile skip-loader which made its UK debut at the 1978 Motor Show. Double-jointed arms are used for lifting and emptying a wide variety of skips.
5. Vactor Ltd showed its 810 model which is claimed to be the most manoeuvrable in their range. Jet-rodding and air-flow collection is combined in one operation. The forward controls at the front allow the operator to have complete control of the jet-rodder and boom without having to enter the drainage system.
6. Multilift's new hooklift introduced in March this year for lifting continues from ground level and loading them onto a chassis. A unique pivoting hook-arm gives this machine a versatility not normally associated with hooklift-type machines. It has been designed to operate on two-and three-axle chassis at the moment up to 24 tons gvw.
7. Hestair Dennis Ltd's new Bulkmaster Mk 2 80 intermittent-loading refuse collector. The model exhibited was fitted with the new Dennis allsteel tilt crew cab with seating accommodation for a driver and five loaders. The purpose-build Dennis municipal chassis with a wheelbase of 13ft 7in has a gross vehicle weight of 16 tons. The Bulkmaster is offered with a choice of power units ranging from 120-180bhp and either manual or automatic transmission. The new 20cuyd body has a payload of 7 tons.
8. The Lacre Skip-Eater refuse collector with a capacity of 31cuyd (air space). This body is built to take anything and everything and will lift and collect from containers up to 14cuyd capacity.
9. R. Bradley Municipal Vehicles Ltd Comm-Sita 5080 refuse collection vehicle fitted With steel 21cuyd free airspace capacity body. A continuous operation system is utilised which incorporate the latest safety ideas. It is mounted on the purpose-built short wheelbase Seddon Municipal chassis.
10. Faun-Werke produces a complete range of municipal vehicles for cleaning urban areas. Of particular interest to visitors were the range of suction sweepers designed for cleaning gutters.
11. Hearncrest Boughton Engineering Ltd demonstrated its all-hydraulic container-handling system which is capable of handling containers up to 40cuyd capacity. All controls are located within the cab and can be operated by the driver. Operation is controlled by three finger-type levers. The system is compatible with other hydraulic types of roll-on containers and many units have been produced to handle wire rope and hydraulic-type containers on I same unit. Ampliroll can be ted to virtually any make chassis from 16-30 tons gvw 12. Glover Webb and Liversic Ltd Series 202 was exhibitec two forms the refuse collect vehicle, and refuse collect vehicle with bin lift. The lar capacity hopper with lc loading rave will accept a gr quantity of refuse. The hop floor has corrosion-resist properties. Hydraulic powei provided by a front-moun gear-driven pump and hydraulic motor drives packer plate through heavy-d roller chains. The packer pl can be operated intermitter or continuously as the cr selects.
13, The York Skipmastei claimed to be the only comp skip-handling body and tra systems available in the t comprising a skip-handl body for 16-ton chassis and a close-coupled trailer to enE two skips to be carried, wh the gross train weight allo Most types and sizes of skip be accommodated and the ting capacity is up to 10 t (payload and skip) from up tc 6in below ground level. 1 independently-controlled ji ing legs are provided at the to give stability on une' ground. Controls are mour on the subframe fr crossmember and activate I system through a combil pto-driven pump from a IE capacity reservoir.
14. The Powell Duffryn D pmaster compaction colle with large storage capacit equipped to pick up and en containers into its own ix put down the empty conta and then compact the refus give maximum payload. exhibited on the stand was new Ranger rear-loading re collection vehicle availabl four body sizes. This colle has a fast packing cycle of 1 15 seconds to cut route ti
1 5. Being shown on the Magirus Deutz stand was a bonneted 232D 26AK 6x6 on/off highway vehicle fitted with an Atkinson's gritter and ''vee cum straight" snowplough. The 26ton-gvw vehicle is powered by a Deutz V8 air-cooled engine developing 228bhp. The gearbox is a ZF six-speed constant-mesh with a two-speed transfer box giving permanent drive through reduction hubs to all wheels.
Differential locks a re hydraulically operated. The low-profile gritter body has a capacity of 11 tons and is fitted with salt screens. The plough can be slewed for angled ploughing in the straight formation and in the "V" formation is locked centrally to the vehicle axis.
16. The Rolba demountable bulk gritter body is mounted on screw hack stands. Operation is fully hydraulic with infinitely variable adjustment of rate of spread. The spreading material is moved to the spinner disc by means of a powerful Archimedean-type screw which guarantees a continuous and accurately-metered flow to the spinner disc.
1 7. BTB Engineering Ltd exhibited a selection of the Ant range of vehicles designed for municipalities. Variations include side-loader, gully-emptier, van sprayer, tower wagon, tir per, fire tender and articulate box van. The Ant vehicle feE tures a robust steel chassis, conventional four-cylinde petrol engine and four-speel gearbox. One option is a com, ersion to the engine for runnini on propane gas.
18. Smith's Electric Vehicle: demonstrated two of its Cabai range of battery-operated stree cleansing vehicles. The bin car rier has a flat platform with fif teen heavy-duty polythene bin! located by lift-up lids hinged tc the central body superstructure
19. The new Mk 3 Melford En. gineering Ltd Precinct has E three-metre turning circle, powerful vacuum to lift debris and a patented water recircula. tion dust-control system which enables sweeping in all weathei conditions. The vehicle hydrau. lic system has been revised. Ar hydraulic motor drives the suction fan in place of the original drive belts and dog clutch. ThE new transmission pump incorporates an hydraulic remote servo which is hydraulically connected to the foot pedal. Other modifications include a new brush system, revised cab layout, simplified driver's controls, high-lift hopper discharge, full suspension system and a powerful wander hose for gulley emptying.