Improved Checkweight
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• Hawker Siddeley has introduced a new version of the Checkweight portable weighing deVice for road transport and other applications. To be called Checkweight Mk. 3, it is a development of earlier models incorporating a number of improvements with no increase in price. First launched two years ago, it is manufactured by S. G. Brown Ltd., of Chiswick, a Hawker Siddeley company.
The improvements have been made not to the heart of the Checkweight but to other components. Improved performance has been achieved by a modification to the levers which transmit the vehicle weight to the load cell. The weighing platform is now die cast, giving extra strength and improved appearance. A new long ramp enables drivers to more easily position vehicles on the device for weighing. At the same time the ramps have been made detachable which permits the Checkweight body (weighing only 491b) to be carried in one hand and the ramps in the other. Earlier models had to be carried in one piece using both hands.
The Forestry Commission has just placed an order for nearly 100 of the Mk 3 models,