Container equipment shown London
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SOME of the latest developments in containers and container - handling equipment which dockers are likely to be facing are on view (trade only) at the International Container Exhibition, Olympia, London this week.
One 'exhibit is a portable radio-telephone system which includes a central 'station' the size of a briefcase and five pocket radio phones.
Said by its makers STC to be the smallest system of its type in the world, it enables management and supervisors to keep in touch at all times and to keep close control of all working operations.
Another development is an electrically-driven conveyorAn example of the size of an OCL container used for belt system which can be extended inside a container for direct filling or emptying.
Special packing
This can eliminate the need for forklift trucks or for special packing operations as the container can be filled directly from the end of a production line in the factory.
Also on show are collapsable containers which enable empties to be returned packed flat in a very small space and huge plastic bags which fill out to fit the inside of a standard container and which enable emptying of powders and granulated materials by a pneumatic system instead of by manual methods.
Another invention — 'Auto Perch' — uses special carrier frames to fit up to five cars into one 40-foot container as compared to only three with the conventional methods.
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Continuous research
being carried out into further refinements of containerization-computer control of all operations, simplification of paper work, use of workstudy methods — which can lead to still more cutbacks in the number of workers involved in port operations. BIRMINGHAM YOUNG SOCIALISTS For Socialist policies! To keep the Tories out! Assemble 2.30 p.m. Waterloo Street, near Victoria Sq March to YMCA, Constitution Hill.
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