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Bulk-container Design Improved

4th September 1959
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Page 66, 4th September 1959 — Bulk-container Design Improved
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THE blown-discharge bulk container introduced by Bonallack and Sons, Ltd., Basildon. last year as a detachable container for fitting inside the body of a slightly modified tipper vehicle, if now available in an alternative form.

The Mark 11 version comprises a standard tipper chassis and cab, equipped with a detachable tipping or a flat platform body (or both) which may be removed completely from the chassis and replaced by the container, or vice versa. The entire conversion takes as little as eight minutes when suitable lifting gear is employed.

The principal advantage of the latest multi-purpose version is that it dispenses with the surplus weight (8 cwt.) of the body when the vehicle is being used in a bulk-container role. In other respects, the new version is similar to the Mark I, the same system of male and female truncated pyramids, locked by quick-release pins, being used to secure the container,

tipper or platform body to the chassis sub-frame and a Wellworthy-Ricardo blower being fitted to permit pressure discharge.

Originally developed in collaboration with the Ketton Portland Cement Co., Ltd, who already have 13 of them in use, the Bonallack container vehicle has since been used successfully with lime, sugar, flour and a variety of other dry powders and granulates.

Bonallack containers are also contributing to British Railways' campaign for the improvement of bulk-handling tech-. niques. The railways operate a number of rail-borne cement tankers, most of which are loaded on sidings adjoining various cement works. Delivery, however, is seldom as simple, as often the ultimate destination of the cement is some distance from the nearest rail siding, and in consequence the journey has to be completed by road. Two containers are now in use on this work.


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