A Battery-electric Bin Carrier for West Ham
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t.-I A NOVEL electric street-orderly vehicle to be used in con
junction with bulk-collection vehicles has been produced for West Ham Corporation by R. W. Osborne and Son. Ltd., Saffron Walden, Essex. The vehicle is based on a Ross-Auto RA.25 battery electric chassis with 210-amp.-hr. bateries.
The cab fitted is the Osborne Safetymatic type which allows stand-sit driving and good all-round vision. No doors are provided and two vertical windows at the bottom of the front panel permit the driver to see the road up to the front of the vehicle.
Bodywork consists of two 1-cu.-yd. light-alloy bins mounted on a roller conveyor. The bins are located by rubber bump stops at front and rear and by a flick-over retainer in the centre of the conveyor. On street-sweeping work, the bins, when full, are raised from the rear of the orderly by the lifting gear on the bulk-collection vehicle and emptied into its body. The Ross-Osborne orderly may also be used for the gritting of highways.
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