New Motor Vehicle that Plays with Tons In Folham, London, recently was seen what is believed to be a new type of motor vehicle for Britain, called the Auto-Horse.
It was pulling, backing, turning, and generally playing with a five ton lorry in a space of 20 feet. in, a way that no motor vehicle could do, and certainly as no horse could do.
First it pulled the load straight forward. then the motor body swung right round with the driver facing his load, while the chassis and the waggon remained stationary. In this position it pushed the waggon back to its original place. Afterwards it did figures "eights," and circles, with the five ton waggon; pushed it here and turned it there. into all kinds of queer positions.
It is a sort of locomotive cab body over a central driving wheel, and two diminutive trailer wheels are behind to take the rear weight of the chassis when the vehicle is detached from its load.
The only special fitment for the trailer load lorry is a horizontal draw-bar attached to the front axle. At the rear of the Auto-Horse chassis is a "ramp'' which automatically grips the draw-bar and is locked and unlock(d in two or three seconds. The whole principle of the vehicle is that-of pulling a load instead of carrying 1 It may well mean a future revolutionary change for short distance Laulage at docks, railway sidings, factories, soap and other works where big loads are moved daily in confined spaces, and where the steam waggon and the petro] motor-lorry axe restricted in use by their lack of maneuvring power.
OAN PULL 15 TONS, It can work in and out of wharf warehouses and can pull a load of from one to 15 tons and can be adapted to deal in one journey with the weight ordinarily carried by three, and even' four horse lorries. The makers claim that with a six tons load it will travel. 114 m.p.h., and it has been demonstrated that on a daily carting of 40 tons there is a saving of 3d. per ton compared with horse haulage.
The Auto-Horse is of 25 h.p. (Dorman engine), has four speeds, and the drive is by cross-shaft and roller chain to a steel casting wheel with twin rubber tyres. ed—swiftly if an injury, slowly if an illness.
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