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Sweden Studying Tractor Haulage

31st October 1958
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A TTENTION is being given in Sweden PI to the suitability of tractors for short-distance haulage. It is estimated that most journeys run by goods vehicles are less than 30 miles, and because tractors, having a maximum speed not exceeding 18 m.p.h., are free of tax, they can compete effectively against lorries.

• There are about 150,000 tractors in Sweden and a similar number of lorries, and annual sales of both types of vehicle are each running at 12,000. B.M. and Volvo models represent half the tractor sales, and the manufacturers have collaborated with trailer makers in evolving various types of trailer for different kinds of load. One trailer has an axle driven from the tractor power take-off and is used for difficult cross-country work.

Tractor-trailer combinations are available in Sweden for the delivery of milk, beer and oil, for forestry and building work, and for cleansing purposes. Tractors equipped with rear-end loaders. which are replacing front-end loaders because of the greater weight which can be supported at the rear, and working in conjunction with trailers with quickrelease couplings, have been found highly economical, as one operative can load And unload, connect and disconnect and drive.

The Swedish State Railways, Whose. container traffic has grown rapidly, now have 100 members in their pallet pool. The pool was started in 1955 with a stock of 10.000 pallets, and there are now 100,000 pallets.

New types of wagon have been produced: pallets are returned free of charge. In addition there are numerous private owners of pallets, which are being made by a number of Swedish manufacturers, who are expecting big export sales when the international pallet pool. preliminarily agreed upon in Paris this year, becomes a reality.

The Swedish Lloyd company have built special vessels for their shipping service to Britain, on which palleted and container loads are carried. Swedish mechanical-handling companies are offering a variety of appliances for handling pallets.

A seamless aluminium container for carrying milk has been produced by the Skultunaverken concern. This has a plastics lid so that, as well as advantages as regards hygiene, the container does not rattle in transit. The company also make nesting aluminium containers for meat.

Since 1950 the amount of goods transported by road in Sweden has doubled, according to statistics published by the Swedish Automobile Manufacturers' Association. In the past 18 years there has been a great increase in the number of lorries on the road; and the Association predict that this tendency will continue.

The number of goods vehicles in 1957 was 115,000, but it is forecast that in 1965 the number could reach 170,000 and in 1975 it might be between 230,000 and 300,000.

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Organisations: Sweden PI
Locations: Paris

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