Two New Bulk Transport Units Displayed
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A NOTHER of the bulk fuel carrying In. outfits exhibited at last week's coat handling exhibition at Marylehone (one was illustrated in the May 28 issue) was the Guy-Charrold artic seen on the left. The Gardner-engined Invincible tractive unit is hauling a Charrold 810 cu. ft.capacity hopper semi-trailer suitable for any free-flowing commodity but exhibited as a coal carrier in a new 28-ton-g_c.w. form. The payload at this gross rating is 18 tons, discharge being by a new endless-belt floor conveyor mounted on a separate pull-out frame; the detachable conveyor extension boom is seen housed at the side for transport.
The lower picture shows the first demonstration model of the Crane Fruehauf bulk hopper pressure tanker, which is leaving the UK on June 10 for the International Transport Exhibition at Munich. It can be supplied as a 20-tong.t.w. two-hopper unit of 600 cu. ft. or a 30-ton three-hopper unit in sizes up to 1,300 Cu. ft.
After extensive tests. Crane is offering a jet fluidizing system as an alternative to standard fluidization pads so that the unit can be converted quickly from powder to liquid loads; for liquids, the voids above the king-pin and running gear can now be used as carrying compartments. Bottom doors for dumping powder can be fitted at customers' request.