" Sealed " Tippers Prevent Dripping
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AN interesting feature of four tipping bodies recently built by H.S. Garages, Eastern Avenue, Ilford, Essex, is the provision of rubber-strip sealing at the rear and a lever-operated lock to clamp the tail door firmly against it. This is to meet the requirements of a local by-law seeking to prevent water from dripping from such vehicles on to the road.
The firm constructed the bodies on Commer underfloor engined 7 ton chassis of 9-ft. 7-in, wheelbase and installed Telehoist twin-ram tipping gear, for which they are agents. Ray Powell, Ltd., supplied the lorries to Peters and Barham, Ltd., a sand and ballast. merchant.
Tapered from a width at the rear of 7 ft. 2 ins. to 7 ft. at the front, the bodies are 11 ft. 6 ins, long and are of 6-cubic-yd. capacity. The sides are just over 2 ft. high, whilst the front boards are built up to cab-roof height. The weight of each body has been kept down to .11-12 cwt. through the extensive use of light alloy.
The bodies are panelled on the outside, to facilitate signwriting, and are protected by full-length steel rubbing strips fixed to timber. Long Humphrey calibrating rods are attached inside, and British Bergougnan 36 by 8-in. I4-ply tyres are fitted. H.S. Garages have also carried out some work on a number of pre-war Leyland petrol-engined tippers of Peters and Barham, Ltd., converting them to oilers and replacing the old 6-cubic'-yd. conventionally built bodies with 7-cubicyd. bodies of light alloy. About 9 cwt. has been saved despite the heavier weight of the compression-ignition unit installed.