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CRT is happy to once again have for you some golden oldies from England's Tim Byrne, who is amassing a tremendous collection of classic photos. First up is the ultra-rare Norba KI 8 "Alligator" rear loader set up for skip duty. This truck featured a unique jaw-type pre-crusher, which never quite caught on in the refuse industry. Sales in Britain were lackluster, at best. Tim describes it as " a disaster" , with only four copies sold to the UK Market. Nevertheless, Norba did have other designs which were far more successful, and remains in business to this day. Dana Gregory has a vintage Norba Album at the CRT Members Area, with pictures of their products, including a better look at the Alligators jaws. BOUGHTON FRONT LOADERS 
In the UK, these FLs were badged as "ANCHORPAC", the tradename of a U.S. company absorbed by the Harsco Corporation (Cobey's parent company) during the 1970's. Next to the front loader shown below is another product sold by Boughton, the Ampliroll hooklift system, shown with a rear load packer body in use by Raven Waste Disposal. 
By the early nineties, the ribbed-body FL was replaced with a smooth-side version as shown below. At right is the FL paired with a non compaction hooklift dump body, and with the body tilted you can see the arm lift mechanism behind the cab. Following bankruptcy in 1997, the front loader was discontinued. The reorganized Reynolds-Boughton Ltd. continues to sell only the hooklift product. 
MORE GEMS FROM TIM 
Here's a nice looking Leyland Bison with a Heil Mark V rear loader, illustrating the early style, direct-pull skip hoist. Note the absence of a pivot arm; the lift cylinder rods attach via a set of short chains. Cartaways was bought out by Leigh Environmental in 1986. 
Nice look at the working end of another Mark V owned by Adams Waste Services, showing the "Bell Crank" type skip lift. The excellent leverage of this arrangement allows for use of substantially shorter lift cylinders, which attach just below the fulcrum. 
Though designed to handle much larger containers, theses hoists were readily adaptable to empty smaller containers as shown here. Industrial, commercial and residential hand routes are served by one truck. Though not sold in America since about 1980, the Heil Mark V packer has been built in the UK continuously since the mid 1970s, where it has earned a solid reputation as an "eat anything" machine. They are a popular choice for heavy bulk refuse handling, the UK counterpart to the big the big Leach and Loadmaster "demolition" rear loaders of the northeast U.S. 
Another Adams rear loader, another of the four Norba Alligators sold in England. Adams was purchased by BFI in the mid nineties. 
Here's a heavy duty MacREL rear loader made by David Mackrill Engineering, with a skip hoisted in the dump position. This shows the latest type hoist, in which the lift cylinders attach to the lift arms above the fulcrum, instead of the bell crank method as shown on the Adams truck. 
Handling the lighter stuff, such as this wheeled bin, was the MacLOAD rear loader on this three axle chassis. Both MacREL and MacLOAD were licensed versions of the German Haller. 
The MacLOAD on the tip. Tim tells CRT that F & R Cawley is still in business, and is currently using Mark V's and one 1994 Haller X1, which was the demo of the former Haller UK when they introduced that model to the British market. 
And how about this nice little MacPAC side loader for the hard-to-reach places 
Finally, from Cawley we leave you with this massive Geesink Vulture 8 x 4 Continued... Back to Page 2<<<
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