"Nothing special in that Biglorryblog!" I hear you shout and indeed you'd be right as it's a typical yankee tipping trailer configuration (they also have that style down under). But with the exception of a few weird tankers and tippers in the 60s I saw in CM it's a design we've never taken to in the UK. How come I wonder? Answers BLB army! Martin P, as a much-travelled man can you shed some light on our love of full-length chassis on tipping trailers? equally what are the US-style tippers like to use---i.e. speed of tipping, stability etc.
Meanwhile, click through here for another bit of Hyva.
Ahhh....that's more like it. A nice big Bulldog rigid. Smart-looking truck that's so much better than those monster squared-off US six-wheeler dumpers I normally see. A few curves here and there work wonders. And that's a Hyva ram on the body...as if you hadn't guessed. Thanks for the pictures Ellen.
Commonly known as 'tip over axle' in Oz,we`ve got them as flat tops as well,the`re called convertables,they put gates and tarps on them for grain,and take them off for general.
A lot of Tate & Lyle sugar tankers in the 60s and 70s used this tipping mechanism.
Sorry Brian but my knowledge in this area, as in so many others, is sadly lacking. But do I remember correctly that York offered a similar tipping trailer for the UK market back in the early 1970s?