New Trailers at Smithfield
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COMMERCIAL-VEHICLE interest at this year's Smithfield Show, which is being held at Earls Court from December 6-10, will be centred mainly on trailers, of which new models are to be exhibited. A battery-electric mobile shop and various loaders are also to be staged.
Smith's Delivery Vehicles, Ltd., Team Valley, Gateshead-on-Tyne, 11 (Stand 263), will be exhibiting a battery-electric chassis with butcher's shop body. Stainless metals, plastic surfaces and glass are freely used for the fittings, whilst the facilities provided for washing include a hot-water washbasin and tank, and soap and towel dispensers. The model to be shown has been purchased by Colchester Co-operative Society.
Hydraulic loaders will form the main exhibits of Skyhi Ltd., Skyhi Works, Worton Road, Isteworth, Middx. (Stand 13). In one example, a Fordson industrial tractor is used as the motive unit of a Skyhi heavy-duty loader having a shovel of 1i-cu.-yd. 'capacity. The hydraulically operated arms of the loader are designed to take three different sizes of shovel, as well as other types of implement.
Stanhay (Ashford), Ltd., Elwick
Works, Ashford, Kent (Stand 134), will show a hydraulic hoist and loader. Of the tractor-mounted type, it has a swivelling jib and is adaptable to take a useful range of hydraulic grabs.
The Teleloader automatic sack loader will form one of the exhibits of Telehoist, Ltd., Swindon Lane, Cheltenham, on Stand 164. This concern will include in their exhibit a three-way tipping gear fitted to a trailer, and a selection of trailer tipping-gear rams.
The Dinkurn digger trench excavator is a product of Whitlock Bros., Ltd., Great Yeldham, Essex, and on Stand 71
they will show two tractor-mounted versions of it. The digging capacity of the latest model has been increased to dig trenches 36 in. wide to a depth of 9 ft.
The concern are also to show a new 8-ton low-loading transporter. It has a single axle with twin wheels, and tilts so that a tractor, for instance, can be driven onto it.
A power take-off, which can be applied to the rear wheel of a vehicle, will be shown by Weighers (Livestock), Ltd., Warwick Road, Batley, Yorks (Stand 287). It is a friction-driven device and should prove particularly useful where no alternative source of power is available.
A wide range of trailers is to be exhibited by Taskers of Andover (1932). Ltd., Andover, Hants, on Stand 70. Of these, there will be a 3-ton model with hydraulic tipping body, and a 300gallon tank trailer, both of which are new to the Taskers range.
The tipper is an improved version of the two-wheeled trailer, in which a greater angIe of tip is now possible. It has an underbody ram and alternative drawbars are offered. The body is
10 ft. long and 6 ft. 4 in. wide; overall length is 14 ft.
The tank trailer has a four-wheeled chassis with pivoting centre pole. The welded tank is 3 ft. in diameter and 7 ft. 6 in. long. For filling or pumping of liquids to higher levels, a pump is mounted at the rear of the tank. Three-way tipping is provided by the Alley Mark II three-way trailer which will be shown by Alley Trailers, Ltd., Hey bridge Works, Mahlon, Essex, on Stand 40A. It is one of five models made from 60 standardized components. Some additional types which these parts cover are a low loader, a high loader and an end tipper. Of all-steel construction, the body is 10 ft. long and 6 ft. wide, the width of the body as a low loader being 1 ft. less.
On Stand 234, the Angel .Truck Co.,. Ltd., 215-219 Albion Road, London, N.16, will include some small powered trucks amongst their exhibits.
An interesting exhibit to be staged on Stand 296 by the Spenborough Engineering Co., Ltd., Union Road, Heckmondwike, Yorks, will be a new type of seal for hydraulic cylinders. It is claimed to give a longer life and have greater efficiency. A large range• of hydraulic tipping rams, tipping gears and hand and power pumps will be featured.