Trailers the Main Transport Interest at Smithfield
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rTHE only new exhibit coming within the scope of "The Commercial Motor," to be displayed a( the Smithfield Show at Earls Court, London, from December 8-12, will be a commercial version of the FOrdson Major agricultural tractor. Details of the main differences between the two types were given in this journal on November 21.
A choice of either an oil engine or petrol unit, with respective outputs of 40.5 b.h.p. and 39.5 b.h.p., is offered.
Brakes acting on drums secured to the rear wheels, grouped controls and heavy-duty 9.00 by 36-in, six-ply tyres on the rear wheels form some of the most important features of this new model. It will be seen on Stand 82, to be occupied by The Ford Motor Co., Ltd.
On Stand 247, Smith's Electric Vehicles, Ltd., Princesway, Team Valley, Gateshead-on-Tyne, 11, will be showing a mobile butchery shop, the basis of which will be an N.C.B. 1-ton battery-electric chassis. Built to attain the highest degree of hygiene, the body is fitted with a self-eantained hot-water supply to provide facilities for washing.
Interior appointments include a chopping block, waste bin, meat rails, counter and detachable trays. There is also an insulated cold-storage cabinet which can be refrigerated by means of eutectic inserts.
Among exhibitors of trailers will be F. W. Wheatley (Trailers), Ltd., Wheatley Avenue, Padholme Road, Peterborough (Stand 197). This concern will have on view an example of its 2)-ton balanced tipper, the body of which can be tipped and returned by hand, and two-wheeled and four-wheeled grassdrying trailers. This type of trailer is designed for towing behind a forage harvester and has a superstructure to retain the load which is fed into it.
A three-way tipping trailer and a 5-cubic-yd. muck-spreader with a moving floor will form two of the vehicles to be exhibited on Stand 162 by Alley Trailers, Ltd., Burnham Market, Norfolk. A standard Alley low-loading trailer forms the basis of the muck-spreader, the moving floor of which is mechanically operated from the power take-off of the towing vehicle.
Whitlock Brothers, Ltd., Great Yeldham, Essex (Stand 71), will have a frameless all-steel trailer on exhibition. The pressed-steel interlocking panels, when assembled, form a rigid structure needing no mounting base. Trailers of this type are available in payload capacities ranging from 2 tons to 6 tons.
A full range of two-wheeled and four-wheeled trailers will be seen on Stand 70, of Taskers of Andover (1932), Ltd., Waterloo Iron Works, Andover, Hants. Payloads will range from 7 cwt. to 5 tons.
The main exhibit of Telehoist, Ltd., Swindon Lane, Cheltenham (Stand 158), will be a Taskers trailer with an 1I-ft. by 6-ft. body fitted with a Teleloader, details of which were given in last week's issue.
the TeIeloader is a simple, fully automatic, hydraulically operated sack lifter, which can be fitted with equal facility to either side or end of a lorry. A modified version of the lifter can be used for loading churns of milk.