IN PLACE OF THE TIPPING BODY.
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A New Refuse Body with a Number of Unique Features.
MOST-REFUSE lorries in municipal service are fitted with tipping bodies in order to facilitate the discharge of the load at the incinerator or other site where the refuse is taken for removal or destruction. In some cases, where older types of vehicles are in service, tipping bodies are not incorporated, an consequently, the refuse has to be. shovelled out by hand:
The latter method is, to all intents and purposes, obsolete, and little use is made of it now that tipping bodies are available. Seine authorities, however, are prejudiced against certain types of tipping bodies, and to them, as to ether municipal authorities who maintain a close touch with the latest developments in mechanical haulage, a new type of • body, which has been designed by TiZgertone {Ipswich), Ltd., of Northgate Street., Ipswich, and fitted on a W. and G, chassis to the order of the Caterham Urban District Ceuntil, will be of inteirest.
The sole object in 'designing the body has been to provide a satisfactory type which will automatically Unload itself without the use of tipping gear. As will be seen f torn the illustrations we reproduce on tins page. the floor of the body is pitched like a roof and is covered with sheet metal, this method of construction ensuring that the whole of the load is automatically Shot out so soon as the sides of the body are dropped.
The sides of the body are made in two parts so as to reduce the difficulty of lowering them, and it will be noted that at the top of each portion there is a small binged door which, when dropped, reduces the height to which the man has to raise the bin before depositing the sub• bish in the lorry. The space under the pitched floor is intended to be used as a locker in which the loading ladder, rakes, shovels, etc., can be carried, whilst there is anotker locker at the rear of the body which is used for storage of disinfee ant. The body is designed to carry a load of two tons of rubbish, and it is fitted with a waterproof tilt cover, which is made in four sections, each section being fitted with patent Lightning fasteners so that they can each be opened independently. The cab of the lorry follows common practice, but it is provided with a waterproof, canvas celluloid storm curtain which, when not in use, is accommodated below the roof top.