INVENTION TESTED

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30234, 12 September 1963, Page 18

INVENTION TESTED

21-TonLoadOn Transporter "The Press" Special Service DANNEVIRKE, Sept. 10. When 21 tons of steel were loaded on to a transporter in Dannevirke recently, a success was established for the inventor, Mr A. Patterson, a local Ministry of Works surveyor. The load was taken to an engineering works, a distance of about a mile, where it was unloaded within an hour. The advantage of Mr Patterson’s transporter is that it saves the double-handling usually required when goods have to be first taken off the railway waggon and then again at their destination. Mr Patterson’s trailer, consisting of a steel base sprung on eight large aeroplane tyres and pulled by an ex-army lorry, which winches the load on to the trailer, handled the load without a hitch. The trailer is capable of carrying 35 tons. After the demonstration, Mr G. S. J. Read, an inspecting engineer for the Railways Department, who was among the spectators, said that it stood up to the test remarkably well, and if used in bigger centres where there would be more work for it, he thought it would have a great future. Mr Read asked for a second demonstration. This time the job was completed in three-quarters of an hour.