Mechanized freight handling equipment consisting of four electric industrial tractors, 389 trailers, two battery powered fork lift trucks and 3-ton capacity crane truck keeps freight moving along combination land-and-water route; 30-yr old tractors are equipped with 42-cell A8 Edison nickel iron alkaline storage batteries; batteries are charged in separate building by motor generators supplying d-c power.
Power trucking handles all LCL "floating freight" in southern railway's Norfolk-pinners point terminals
Storage Battery Power
Storage Battery Power ; 22 , n 5
1952
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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