A trailer, adapted to be readily coupled to and uncoupled from a road-going vehicle which in use is to pull the trailer; the trailer also being adapted to carry one or more batteries at least one of which batteries is intended in use to augment or to provide the propulsive power unit of the vehicle; and characterised by any one or more of the following features: • the trailer is a wheeled or skidded or winged or float-borne trailer; and/or • in the embodiment envisaged immediately above, the wheels or skids or wings or floats form non-propulsive components when the trailer is in road-going use; and/or • the trailer is adapted such that when in use with the vehicle it is tiltable forwards, backwards, up or down or side to side whether or not travelling; and/or • the trailer is braked so as to be self-standing and static when not coupled to a vehicle; and/or • the wheels, skids, wings or floats of the trailer are steerable; and/or • the trailer is adapted to mate with the vehicle in a double-Vee (as defined herein) connection; and/or • the trailer is adapted to articulate relative to the vehicle when in use; and/or • the trailer incorporates a recessed or open-ended region to facilitate the passage over or through the trailer of a platform such as – by way of example only – a medical stretcher.


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    Title :

    Improvements in and relating to vehicle trailers


    Publication date :

    2021-05-05


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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