Reducing Delays at Terminal Points
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UNTIL recently the problem of reducing the waiting time of motor vehicles at terminal points was a considerable one to A. and W. Flatau and Co., Ltd., a concern of boot and shoe manufacturers, of Tottenham Hale, London, N.17. This company has branches about a quarter of a mile apart, and it is frequently necessary for motorvans to travel from one to the other with loads of goods.
The time involved on the journey was negligible, but that entailed in loading up the vans was considerable' as the burdens consisted of boxes which were carried on trolleys to the vehicles mid were then loaded by hand.
Lyne, Frank and Wagstaff, Ltd., of Tottenham Lane, Crouch End, London, . NS, has just supplied the footwear concern with a Dennis 30-cwt. low-loading van, the body of which was designed and constructed by the former organi zation. Now the boxes are loaded up on to trolleys, whidh are mounted upon two fixed and two swivelling rubber-tyred ball-bearing casters, and are run up a removable ramrg, and into the vehicle, metal-bound guide rails, attached to the floor, preventing the trolleys from moving sideways when in position. These trucks were also constructed by Lyne, Frank and Wagstaff, Ltd., and each is capable of carrying a load of 6 cwt. • In this way the vans may quickly be loaded up and driven away to their destinations, the amount of waiting time being greatly reduced. At theiterminal point the trolleys may he wheeled to various departments whilst there is a consignment of laden trucks waiting for transport to another point. Furthermore, the vehicles are available for other transport work.