Useful Additions to Lolode Trailer Range
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A New All-metal 30-cwt. Tipper, a 150-gallon Tanker and a Variety of Light Models for General
and Specific Purposes
ALL trailers manufactured by the Low-Loading .Trailer Co., Ltd., Bedford, now bear the name Lolode. In addition to the concern's wellknown horsebox trailers, a range of luggage, agricultural and general-purpose vehicles from 5-cwt. to 25-cwt. capacity is now, produced. The latest innovation, however, is the introduction of a 30-cwt. two-wheeled tipper for use with a tractor, and an interesting tanker with a Capacity 'of 150 gallons for transporting wafer, oil, paraffin, etc.
These two new machines are shown in the accompanying illustrations. The tanker is provided with a doubleended towing pole so that it can be hauled by the tractor, with the plough or other implement at the rear, to any convenient point on a large farm. It is equipped with pumping apparatus and incorporates a receptacle for tools.
The tipping trailer is built entirely of metal. It affords a platform length of 6 ft. 7 ins, and has a width of 4 ft. 8 ins. The sides are 1 ft. 6 ins. high.
Both these machines have high-tensile-steel axles, tapered-roller-bearing hubs and steel artillery-type wheels shod with Dunlop land tyres.
The recently introduced trailers, referred to above, include a 5-cwt. luggage model, having a tubular axle and disc wheels, and intended for use with a light car ; a somewhat more heavily built machine of 8-cwt. capacity, and an 8-cwt. farmer's trailer with sides 2 ft. 7 ins. high.
There arc also two 12-cwt. trailers, each having two independently mounted wheels. These incorporate the company's patented suspension system, well known in connection with its horseboxes, in which the mudguard forms a part of the stub-axle mounting, and three springs—one at each end of the guard and one at the top—support the weight. The arrangement permits the lowest possible platform height, and affords excellent stability.
One 12-cwt. model is a generalpurpose machine, 8 ft. long by 3 ft. 9 ins, wide, and the other a cattle or pony carrier.
With. similar suspension but four wheels, a 25-cwt. model is offered. The body, in this case, is 13 ft. long and may be built up to 5 ft. 2 ins. wide, the loading height being 11 ins. An important feature is the braking system. There are drums on all four . wheels, operation being by the Lock heed hydraulic system and power for the purpose being provided by the drawbar pnll (which is stored in a spring) and overrunning loads. The brakes are electrically controlled by a switch actuated on applying the brake pedal of the towing car.
In the horsebox range the principal development is the Newmarket twohorse model. This is claimed to be the only horsebox trailer in which both animals travel with their beads to the rear. The Harbor() resembles the Newmarket in general design, but is less luxuriously equipped. Both have four wheels, but there is also a twowheeled horsebox for one animal. A feature of the two larger models is the provision of doors at both front and rear so that the horses do not have to be backed out.
The prices of Lolode trailers for the 1935-36 season are as follow :—Newmarket, £100; Harbor°, £170; 25-cwt., £115; two-wheel horsebox (with Lockheed brakes), £90, (with automatic brakes), £70; farmer's 12-cwt., £45; general-purpose 12-cwt., £35; tipping trailer, £32; farmer's 8-cwt., £22; luggage 8-cwt., £20; luggage 5-cwt., £12 10s. The price of the tanker is not yet available.