A Tipping-gear Maker's Show Models
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SPACE restrictions at the Show will permit only two lorries to be staged by Bromilow and Edwards. Ltd., the B. and B. tipping-gear maker, now of Foundry Street, Bolton. The vehicles will be :—(a) A Leyland Hippo sixwheeler with B. and E. three-way tipping gear ; load capacity about 12 tons. This vehicle is specially suitable for heavy work, such as the transport and tipping of building materials—brick, stone, etc.; engineers' equipment, etc.;
(b) a Guy 6-ton four-wheeler with three-way tipping gear. The B. and E. gear will also be exhibited on other stands.
The device itself is now so universally known as not to require detailed explanation, but the host of newcomers (notably -corporation buyers of lowloading refuse vehicles) are informed that the B. and E. gear is obtainable for a single or rearward tip, a twoway tip to operate at either or both
sides, and a three-way tip, embracing work at the rear and two sides. Special plant is being installed by Mr. Maurice Edwards at his new• works for ramtesting, thus ensuring even greater certainty than ever of ram efficiency.
One of the two Show exhibits of the B. and E. gear concern is shown herewith—the Leyland, which, in this form, has been quaintly called a HippoTippo, being a heavyweight Hippo lorry with tipping gear.