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Some Interest for Hauliers at Royal Show
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pRELIMINARY information on I exhibits at the Royal Show, which is to .be held at Cambridge from Tuesday to Friday next week, indicates that there will be some which will be of interest to hauliers concerned with agriculture. Only two concerns appear to be intending to show bulk grain and feed vehicles, but there are to he a number of horse, cattle and livestock carriers on view.
An entirely new system of loading and unloading bulk materials will be exhibited by Byron Farm Machinery, Ltd., Blackhorse Lane, London, E.17 (stand ('.41). This is known as the Byron Bulkveyor and consists of a system of augers which are fitted at the rear of the body and end with a 20-ft. boom auger. This allows load discharge up to a height of 26 ft., and as it can be reversed the picking up of ' goods is possible. Each auger is powered by its own hydraulic motor, driven from the vehicle power take-off.
Four vehicles, fitted with bulk materials handling bodies incorporating pneumatic discharge will be shown by Murfitt Bulk Transporters, Ltd., Ipswich, on stand C52. Two will be mounted on Albion Reiver chassis (one having a tipping body), one on a Commer and the fourth on an A.E.C. eight-whceled chassis. Murfitt will also be showing their Pneu-Con unit which is for use with agricultural tractors. , An aid to goods handling is to be featured by Lodematic, Ltd., of Clitheroe, Lanes (stand D.12). This is the Mark B hydraulic loader which is intended for the loading of materials in sacks. Power is provided by a mains electric motor or a B.S.A. 120 c.c. o.h.v. engine and, on receiving the load, the platform lifts and halts automatically at any pre-determined height up to 12 ft.
Horse-boxes will be exhibited by Vincents of Reading, Ltd. (stand C.83). G. C. Smith (Coachworks). Loughborough (stand C.85) and Lambourn Garages and Engineering Works, Ltd.. Lambourn (stand D.25). Vincents will show their streamlined three-horse box on a Bedford 5-ton long-wheelbase chassis, and a dual-purpose vehicle with stalls for four horses on an Austin 5-ton chassis. The two four-stall horse boxes to be displayed by G. C. Smith. will be mounted on Bedford and Thames Trader chassis and will incorporate sideand rear-loading doors.
Smiths will also show a livestock container with interior decks mounted on a Thames Trader, and various trailers for cattle, horses and ponies. Lambourn Garages and Engineering Works, Ltd., will be exhibiting versions of their de luxe three-horse box and dual-purpose horse-box/cattle truck mounted on Commer chassis and will also include on their stand various accessories for Land-Rovers.
An interesting exhibit by Carmichael and Sons (Worcester), Ltd. (stand B.27) will be an Albion CH3.AXL chassis fitted with a 17-ft. drop-sided tipping body on which is mounted a Carmichael Champion cattle container. This enables the vehicle to be converted for use as a tipper, as a platform truck or for the transport of livestock. Also to be seen on the same stand will be 18-ft. and 22-ft. cattle containers on Cornmer 7-ton and Leyland Comet CS3.8R chassis respectively.
Austin 7-ton long-wheelbase chassis will be the basis for two livestock containers to be featured by A. C. Penman, Ltd., Dumfries (stand B.25). One will have a corrugated light alloy body, the ,other a body of varnished timber.
Taskers of Andover (1932), Ltd. (stand E.28), will again be exhibiting versions of their 4-Seasons trailers. together with a number of smaller trailers and items of farm _equipment. Atkinsons Agricultural Appliances. Ltd., are also to display a, range of farm equipment, including power takeoff guards, a 5-ton bulk lime body, and various spreaders.
A selection of trailers made by The Salop Trailer Co., Ltd., Shrewsbury, will be displayed on their stand, No. G.56. These include a new 3-ton
trailer/spreader in, addition to smaller trailers and tipping models.
As usual, The Rover Co., Ltd., Solihull, are one of the few vehicle makers represented at the Royal Show (stands G.41 and F.42). A complete range of Land-Rovers is being shown, together with various items of specialized equipment. Included in the exhibits will be a mobile workshop, a mobile dispensary, a gully emptier and a tipper.
Wheeled and crawler tractors equipped for a variety of uses will naturally be featured on many stands. Amongst exhibitors of them will be Allis-Chalmers (Gt. Britain), Ltd., Stamford (stand E.6). Bray Construction Equipment, Ltd., Feltham, Middx. (stand C.18), David Brown, Industries, Ltd., Huddersfield (stand F.40), Caterpillar Tractor Co., Ltd., Glasgow• (stand D.29), County Commercial Cars (Sales), Ltd., Fleet, Hants (stand F.39) and Steel Fabricators (Cardiff), Ltd.. Cardiff (stand F.22).
A wide range of petrol and diesel engines are to be seen on the stands of engine manufacturers and concessionnaires. These include The Birming ham Small Arms Co., Ltd., Birmingham (stand C.7); Trojan, Ltd., Croydon (showing Clinton engines on stand H.25); Perkins Engines, Ltd., Peterborough (stand E.26); Petters, Ltd., Staines (stand E.19); and Standard-Triumph Sales, Ltd., Coventry (stand F.10).
Fuel-injection , equipment, turbochargers and electrical equipment will be shown by C.A.V. Ltd., Acton (stand G.46), and Automotive Products Co., Ltd. (stand B.23) will exhibit a range of components including Autolube self-lubricating steering joints, the Lockheed-Avery Sa fel i nc coupling. clutches, power take-offs, brake assemblies and filters.
Pye Telecommunications, Ltd., Cambridge, will be displaying a range of communications equipment on their stand (K.9) and also in a mobile trailer.
The following concerns are also exhibiting:— Barfords (of Bolton). Ltd., Belton. Lincs.. (stand L21), British Road Senices (C)9).
Castro]. Ltd., Marylebone Road. London, N.W,1.
Dennis Bros., Ltd., Guildford. Surrey (A35): Ernest Doc and SOMA, Ltd., MuIdon, Essex.
Esse Petroleum Co.. Ltd., Queen Anne's Gate, London. S.W.I. (E2).
Ford Motor Co.. Ltd., Tractor Division, Ilford, (E29 and 13461; Formica, Ltd., Regent Street. London, W.I. (021).
International Harvester Co. of Great Britain, Ltd.. City Road, London. E.C.I. (1345 and C64).
R. A. Litter and Co., Ltd., Dursley. Glos. (373); Joseph Lucas. Ltd.. Birmingham (048).
MacKay 'industrial Equipment, Ltd., Ecitham. Middx. (065): Masser-Ferauson (United Kingdom). Ltd., Coventry (E32): Merryneatier and Sons, Greenwich High Road, London, S.E.10. (170. Morris Motors. Ltd.. Agricultural Division. Oxford (039): Motor Tractors (Hefts). Ltd., Thorne Bar, Essex
Rube(14 nGOwen and Co,, Ltd., Darlaston, &afford_ shire (D)3 and C5!0.
R. 3. Patchett. Ltd., Bradford. Yorkshire (1419); Pressed Steel Co., Ltd., Cowley. Oxford (F47).
Regent Oil Co.. Ltd., Park Street, London, W.I. (016); Rice Trailers. Ltd.. Cosby, Leicestershire (1333).
Shell-Mot and B.P., Ltd., Strand, London. W.C.2. (L7): SInsms Motor Units. Ltd., East Finchley. 1 ondon, N.2. (F4).
Tye Trailer Co.. Hull Road. York (1324).
Virtzol Oil Co.. Ltd.. Greenwich. London. S.E.10. (C47): Villiers Engineering Co., Ltd., Wolverhamn. ton. Staffordshire (034).
F. W. Whitatky (Trailers), Ltd., Peterborough. • Northants (064); Whitlock Bros., Ltd., Great Yeldham. Essex (043): Wins= Tractor Cabin Co.. Leamington Spa, Warwickshire (033); Wyss.' Tractor Co.. Wysall, Notts (F32).