The Eagle Bin-carrying Trailer at Work
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IN our issue dated April let we published drawings and a full description of a special trailer which was to be prodnced by the Eagle Engineering Co., Ltd.. of Warwick, to the order of the Westminster City Council, the object of the machine being the collection of house refuse by bringing the full bins to the depot, leaving clean bins in their place.
Two such trailers have recently been completed, and a week or two ago they commenced service, in conjunction with two Rushton pneumatic-tyred tractors, in the City of Westminster. It is not necessary to repeat our description of the machines, and the accompanying photographs give a good impression of the operation of the rotating frame. There are six trays hanging from this frame and each accommodates 10 of the Ess-Em bins. In addition, two fixed trays at the sides have space for 14 bins each, so that, altogether, 88 bins are carried. So that the trays shall not swing, except when required to do so for the purpose of rotating the frame, fibre-tyred discs are fixed at each cud on the pivot spindles and springloaded rods, located radially along the spokes of the frame wheels, press small brake shoes against the peripheries of the discs, actuation being by means of rotating a 'handle at the frame-wheel centre.
Much of the credit for the production of this remarkable type of refuse collector is due to Capt. F. W. Cable, M.I.C.E., the cleansing surveyor of Westminster