Horsebox Design
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—an interesting ramp detail
INFORMATION reaches us concern.ling an interesting detail in connection with ramps for horseboxes, which is the subject of provisional patent specification No. 38436/30 taken out by Mr. William Dickens, a bodybuilder, of Pinfold Gate, Loughborough. This relates to the difficulty of providing a wide ramp, despite the intrusion of the *heel-arch into the available length of the side panelling. In connection with horseboxes mounted on short-wheelbase chassis it is a matter of some importance As our illustration indicates. Mr. Dickens arranges for the forward half of the wheel-box being hinged to a body side pillar, so that after the ramp has been lowered this half of the wheel-arch may be swung out adjacent to the rear half. The gap in the floor which results is covered by whinged flap, this, in the ordinary course, being attached to the ramp itself. The result is that some precious inches can be added to the width of the ramp.
When the ramp is raised its inner surface, extending over the wheel, is pro. tected against mud by the undersid4 of the rectangular flap.'