. Public works . feet 6 inches long, 4 feet 6 incheswide at the front; S feet wide at rear, 2feet high, lined with sheet steel on theinside, with a J^-inch asbestos liningbetween the wood and steel sides, andis designed to carry hot asphalt, brokenstone and sand. The dump mechanismof this trailer body is controlled fromthe drivers seat on the tractor, andraises the body 45 degrees. The oilpump for operating the hydraulic hoistis mounted on the driving shaft, and thefluid is forced back into the hoist on ihetrailer through flexible pipe base of the .Saurer tractor is10 feet 8
. Public works . feet 6 inches long, 4 feet 6 incheswide at the front; S feet wide at rear, 2feet high, lined with sheet steel on theinside, with a J^-inch asbestos liningbetween the wood and steel sides, andis designed to carry hot asphalt, brokenstone and sand. The dump mechanismof this trailer body is controlled fromthe drivers seat on the tractor, andraises the body 45 degrees. The oilpump for operating the hydraulic hoistis mounted on the driving shaft, and thefluid is forced back into the hoist on ihetrailer through flexible pipe base of the .Saurer tractor is10 feet 8 inches. Trailer outfits of tliis nature givegreater flexibility of operation and per-mit heavy loads to be handled in rug-ged service where it would not be pos-sible for a truck with a capacity loadto pull out. Important in this Saurertractor-trailer construction is the uni-versal coupling which links the twounits together. This connection is bya type of Fifth Wheel which the In-ternational Motor Company is using. THE REMIX PRINCIPLE. with great success, and which permitsquick attaching and demounting. The Borough Asphalt Co. are veryactive in the use of tractors and trailersin their paving and road constructionwork, and are getting excellent resultsfrom their Saurer tractors, of whichthey now have seven. Exclusive of theSaurer chassis, the cost of the traileroutfit complete, including FifthWheel, Hydraulic Hoist and pipe con-nections, body, frame and trailerwheels, was $1, ALL STEEL CONCRETE BATCH Foot and Ten-Cubic Foot Mixers Running on the Remix Mixing Principle. The Little Boss Mixer and (lieSteel King Mixer are all-steel con-struction and claimed by the manufac-turers—the .\merican Cement Inc., 1006-1020 Johnson street,Keokuk, Iowa—to embody the bestprinciples of expensive mixers at alow price. The Boss has a capacityof 5 cubic feet and the Steel King10 cubic feet. The Boss Mixer has four blades oneach side of the drum set at a sla
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