Cleansing Conf( ice Will Feature A.R.P. Exhibits
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THE 41st Annual Conference of the Institute of Public Cleansing opens at Scarborough on Monday next, and continues until the following Friday. As is always the case, there will be on view a representative display of a wide range of vehicles and appliances, built for normal municipal duties and for npecial A.R,P. service by some of the leading commercial-vehicle makers, the Thursday (June 8) being set aside for the inspection and demonstration of these machines. An outline of the various exhibits is included in the following pages (the details having been supplied by the makers), whilst in our issue dated June 16 an eye-witness's impression of the behaviour of the machines will be given.
As one of the leading suppliers of electric vehicles for municipal service, Associated Electric Vehicle Manufacturers, Ltd., 231-4, Grand Buildings, Trafalgar Square, London, W.C.2, intends to exhibit two .Electricar refuse collectors, by special arrangement with the municipalities which have purchased them.
A34 As a newcomer to events of this kind, the exhibits of the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., Birmingham, are certain to attract notice. The company is to show a 7 cubic-yd. refuse collector with an all-steel body, and a gully and cesspit emptier, based on a 3-ton long-wheelbase chassis, this vehicle also being
adapted for certain A.R.P. work; the bodywork is by the Eagle concern.
Of the exhibits of Bristowes Machinery, Ltd., Montagu Road, London, N.18, that of chief interest to our readers will be the A.R.P. trailer, which has a large locker at the front.
Messrs. William Bunce and Son, Ashbury, Swindon, will have on view a snow-plough attachment, fitted at the front of a Bedford 2-ton lorry, and a gritting machine, attached to the rear of a similar vehicle.
Five vehicles are scheduled for exhibition by Dennis Brothers, Ltd., Guildford. There will be four refuse collectors and a 750-gallon gully emptier with street-washing and gasdecontamination equipment. Two of the :et use collectors will be of 15 cubic yds. capacity, one having a moving floor by the Dennis concern. The latter has a seating capacity for six men, whereas the other collector of similar capacity, which is arranged for rear loading, seats five men. One of the other refuse collectors is rated at 12-15 cubic yds. capacity and is arranged for side loading; the all-steel welded body is end-tipped by hydraulic gear. The fourth refuse collector is ef 7 cubic yds capacity, and the all-steel
welded body has a removable top; in this case, too, the body is emptied by hydraulic means.
Apart from several Eagle products that will be shown by various chassis make! s, the Eagle Engineering Co., Ltd., Warwick, is also arranging to demonstrate four machines. Three will be refuse collectors and the other a 1,000-gallon gully and cesspit emptier, based on a Leyland 5-ton chassis. Dime of the refuse collectors is of 15-24 cubic yds. capa7rity, and the body, known as the Compressmore type, incorporates compressing gear and an hydraulic plate discharge: this body will be show,' on a Thornycroft chassis. A similar chassis will also be used for a 20cuhic-yd. barrier-type rearloading collector with power-operated hydraulic tipping gear. Finally, there will he a Derby-type side-loading collector, based on a Fordson 3-ton .forward-control chassis. Leamington Spa Corporation is the buyer of this machine, which is of 10-11 cubic yds. capacity.
The exhibits of the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., Dagenham, will be equally divided between refuse collectors of different capacities and A.R.P. equipment. The former have capacities of 7, 10 and 15 cubic yds., the smallest being based on the Thames2-ton chassis and the others on the Tharnes 3-ton chassis. The 10-cubicyd. machine has optional A.R.P.' equip
meat. Of the A .R.P. units, demolition equipment will be shown on a Thames 25-cwt. chassis and decontamination equipment on a similar model. Then there will be a unit with a frictiondrive pump on the Thames 2-ton chassis.
Of the exhibits of Johnston Brothers
(Contractors), Ltd., Ibex House, Minories, London, E.C.3, the bask gritter is constructed for recovering and respreading grit which has been driven by traffic into the road channels. It is towed by an ordinary lorry at speeds up to 10 m.p.h.
As in previous years, Karrier Motors, Ltd., Luton, will be well represented at the Conference, and six models from the company's comprehensive range
will participate. These will include four different types of refuse-collector, an A.R.P.-equipped gully-emptier and a sweeper-collector. The gully-emptier has Yorkshire equipment and is of 750 gallons capacity. The sweeper-collector is the popular RSC model. Of the refuse collectors, the smallest will be the Colt 5-cubic-yd. machine, which is a three-wheeler. Then will follow the Bantam 7-cubic-yd. model, with an all-steel body having sliding semicircular covers and double-opening rear doors. Next will be a CK3 9-10cubic-yd. machine, arranged for side loading, whilst the largest model will be a Cob Senior 18-22-cubic-yd. appliance, in which J-type automatic coupling gear is used for linking up trailer and tractor. The refuse body incorporates a Transport non-corrosive all-metal moving floor.
Exhibited for the first time by Lewin Road Sweepers, Ltd., Crossens, Southport, will be a compressing refuse collector with a patent cylindrical body, which remains stationary during the loading or packing operations. When it is full, the load is discharged by rotating the body, the front end cf which is enclosed and carries a chain sprocket and shaft driven by the engine, the shaft running to the rear and upon it being fitted a short double-lead propeller, near to the loading chute. Speedy loading is obtained, because the propeller uniformly keeps the chute clear by propelling the refuse into the main body, until it ix fully packed. In addition, the company will exhibit an SSC-type sprinkler-sweepercollector, based on a modified Bedford 2-ton chassis, and a Universal foot and hand-controlled sweeper-collector.
Morris Commercial Cars, Ltd..& Adderley Park, Birmingham, is arrang"— ing for three vehicles to be available for inspection. One will be a refuse collector, on the Equi-load 2-ton chassis, with an Eagle 7-cubic-yd. sideloading body. The Eagle concern. is also responsible for the gully and cesspit-emptying apparatus on en Equi-load 3-ton long-wheelbase model, which will be shown. Finally, there will be an A.R.P. Chema special decontamination vehicle, with equipment by Sigmund Pumps (Great Britain), Ltd., on a Morris-Commercial 5-ton longwheelbase chassis.
Interest in the exhibits of Scammell Lorries, Ltd., Watford West, Herts, will probably be centred on the new sweeper and collector, of which particulars were given in our issue dated May 19. In this machine, the roadsweeping equipment is operated by a separate engine, enabling the brusn speeds to remain constant or to be A36 varied to suit road conditions. The
engine and brush controls are operated from a controller's seat. The appliance is coupled up to a Scam=11 municipaltype mechanical-horse motive unit. The refuse-collector exhibits will be an 8-cubic-yd. side-loading end-tipping three-wheeler, a 12-cubic-yd. movingfloor model and a 12-cubic-yd. barrier loader type. For the last two-named, the Scammell 6/3-ton mechanicalhorse motive unit is employed. The same type of motive unit is also used in an 800-gallon trailer-type gullyemptier, which will be shown, as well as for a 1,250-gallon street washer. • As is customary, Shelvolce and Drewry, Ltd., Letchworth, intends to have a good range of its products on view. To the fore will be a containertype collector, in which the chassis carries 12 containers of 1-cubic yd. capacity. The deck is divided into four sections, each carrying three containers. The contents of these containers are discharged by tipping the decks by hydraulically operated rams..
The container transporter truck is also hydraulically operated. There will The three Chelsea-type collectors on view, one of 7-cubic yd. capacity and the others of 10-cubic yd. capacity; one of the latter will be shown with decontamination equipment. Another rgfuse collector will be a 15-cubic yd. rearloading Freighter for Dundee Corporation, equipped with an S.D. moving floor. The exhibit will be completed by an 830-gallon gully-emptier. This appliance can also be used for A.R.P. duties.
Messrs. John Sherwood, 240a, Oxford Street, London, W.1, will have an Ideal 12-cubic-yd. refuse collector on view, the basis of it being a Fordson 3-ton forward-control chassis. There will also be a 15-25-cubic-yd. electric vehicle for carrying five tons of refuse; the tipping mechanism is driven from a 41h.p. motor, but in other respects the features are similar to the petrol-driven models. An Ideal sweeper-collector will also be displayed.
Two refuse collectors will comprise the exhibit of John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., Thornycroft House, Smith Square, London, S.W.1, the smaller—a
7-cubic-yd. dual-purpose machine with A.R.P.. equipment—being based on a Nippy chassis, and the other—a 19-22-cubic yd. appliance—having a Sturdy chassis as its foundation. The body of the former is a product of the Eagle concern, whilst Transport Engineering, Ltd., built the body of the latter, which has a moving floor.
Transport Engineering, Ltd., 561. Old Kent Road, London, S.E.1, will have four vehicles on view to draw attention to its products. There will be a Harrier CK3 chassis with a moving-floor rear-loading refuse-collection body, incorporating a special binlifting attachment for use at hotels and flats. Another Karrier chassis—a CK5 model—will form the basis of a rearloading hydraulic compression vehicle, in which the non-corrosive body is of light metal; the normal effective load is
up to 30 cubic yds. A semi-trailer barrier-loading refuse-collection body will he shown coupled up to a Karrier Cob Junior tractor, whilst a Cob Senior tractor unit will be shown 1:1
conjunction with an all-steel movingfloor rear-loading refuse-collection semi-trailer.
The Paladin refuse collector—a product of Walker Brothers (Wigan), Ltd., Wigan—is one that should attract much notice. It has been designed to deal with containers used in blocks of flats, institutions, schools, etc. The vehicle is equipped with electric gear for hoisting and inverting the containers, which are discharged through an opening in the rear of the body roof, this aperture being closed ' by a mechanically operated shutter. Household bins can be discharged into a large rectangular container at the rear. The outfit has a moving floor.
Of the four vehicles to be staged by Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., Luton, two will be refuse collectors, one a 7-cubic-yd. model on the Bedford 2-ton longwheelbase chassis, and the other—a new appliance—a 15-cubic-yd. outfit on the Bedford 3-ton long-wheelbase chassis. The latter has an Eagle rearloading body with a moving floor. The Vauxhall S-type de luxe ambulance will also be on view, as well as a Bedford A.R.P. decontamination unit.