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Twelve Tons on a Rigid-frame Six wheeler.
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"L1OR about twelve mouths ex perimental work has proceeded at the Foden factory at Sandbach, Cheshire, in the production of a large-load vehicle in which advantage would be derived from the adoption of. the rigid-frame,sixwheel principle, by securing a load capacity far beyond the normal. We are able to illustrate the vehicle which has been completed and which is now undergoing a series of prolonged and searching tests. The engine and boiler are identical with those which have for smite time now been employed for the six-ton Foden wagon, the engine having a roller bearing crankshaft and eccentric sheaves. The frame is built of sturdy rolled channel members suitably cross-membered and braced, and it is doubly strengthened on cacti side above the four-wheeled bogie by an additional length of. channel steel tapered at each end, and by a deep plate which forms the anchorage for the road springs. The frame is also trussed on eali side from a point behind the front axle to a point short of the bogie centre— The bogie is four-wheeldriven by a single chain, and all four wheels are equipped with powerful brakes.
The total platform space is 20 ft. long and 7 ft. wide, and recent road tests have shown that it can comfortably handle a load of 12 tons, and on this loading would be a most economical vehicle. Fuller details are not yet available, but will be given so soon as they are.