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WASH-BASINS are among the optional items available on SD and other refuse collection vehicles but I understand from Shelvoke and Drewry Ltd. that, rather surprisingly, they find there is no great demand for this particular fitting.
However, one will be noted figuring prominently in the accompanying illustration of a crew cab on the 35 cu. yd. Pakamatic employed by the Dungannon RDC in North Ireland. In the rural areas of Ulster rounds are usually lengthy and it is often impossible to return to the depot for a mid-day meal, so that a washbasin is of more than average advantage there.
It may also be that in the case of this particular authority the importance of personal cleanliness has especially high priority, for the officer responsible for refuse collection and disposal here is the divisional public health inspector, Mr. James A. Davidson.
Incidentally, Dungannon's refuse collection vehicles are in some small measure a local product for they have cabs made from glass fibre produced at the Dungannon factory of Turner Brothers Asbestos Co. Ltd.