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A garbage truck is a truck specially designed to collect municipal solid waste and transport it to a solid waste treatment facility, such as a landfill, recycling center or transfer station. In Australia they are commonly called rubbish trucks , or garbage trucks, while in the U.K. dustbin lorry , rubbish lorry or bin lorry is commonly used.
A full account of the restoration appeared in a series of articles in Classic & Vintage Commercials Magazine. [12] The Pakamatic was introduced in 1959 and utilised an aluminium alloy body which was left un-painted. A single reciprocating packer plate compacted the refuse which was discharged by rearward tipping of the body.
1934 Freighter. Shelvoke and Drewry was a Letchworth, Hertfordshire, manufacturer of special purpose commercial vehicles.It was best known for its innovative waste collection vehicles that were the preferred choice of municipal authorities in the UK together with their gully emptiers, cesspool cleaning vehicles and street watering and washing vehicles.
The Revopak compaction system, showing clearly the rotating tines and fixed teeth A Revopak compactor in operation. The Revopak is a type of waste collection vehicle manufactured by the British company Shelvoke and Drewry.
AEERSA (ambulances, rescue vehicles, fire trucks, 2000–present) Ace (1918–1927; also Busses) Alden Sampson; Alexis Fire Equipment Company (fire trucks, 1947–present) Alkane; Allianz; AM General; American (1911–1913) American Austin (1929–1934) American Bantam (1935–1941) American Coleman; American LaFrance (fire trucks) American ...
Various reports of communities buying, or considering buying, Load Packers can be found in newspapers of the era—one such report from 1948 in Redondo Beach, California, cited a cost of $7,200 ($91,306 in 2023) for a Load Packer as compared to $4,200 ($50,726 in 2023) for a then-conventional garbage truck, but "it should pay for itself the ...
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Freightliner Trucks is an American semi truck manufacturer. [1] Founded in 1929 as the truck-manufacturing division of Consolidated Freightways (from which it derives its name), the company was established in 1942 as Freightliner Corporation . [ 2 ]