The Lubrication of Mechanical Handling Equipment Available to Purchase

Although increasingly used the power truck has never completely displaced the hand truck for even in fully mechanised establishments it can still justifiably find a place. The hand truck is a robust piece of equipment, made in various sizes and shapes. The simplest forms are the conventional two‐wheeled truck with either one or two handles, and the platform truck, which, with various arrangements of wheels and castors is used extensively for short hauls of light parts and cartons. Since the last war a large number of specially designed trucks have appeared for the carrying of particular materials or shapes of packages. Possibly the earliest member of the series was the barrel or cask truck but there are many others today, as, for example, those suitable for removing swarf.