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Foden S36. CKX 374F. How not to load a Textile machine.
Whilst we where restoring my own Westfield AEC, and having already restored the Westfield trailer, the next logical step was to have a textile machine in an original Westfield cradle as a load for it, and as It would have worked.
These textile machine's vary in length and width depending on the manufacturer, the machine that we acquired was a 60 foot 'Bentley Cotton', all of it was available, but with the trailer being only 32 foot we decided to just have half of it, and they would have been split if being transported any distance anyway.
It's being loaded with a 10 ton capacity American built 'Towmotor' forklift, picking the machine up like this would have ruined it, with such small clearances involved in these machines, that's why a cradle was used.
Foden S36. CKX 374F. How not to load a Textile machine.
Whilst we where restoring my own Westfield AEC, and having already restored the Westfield trailer, the next logical step was to have a textile machine in an original Westfield cradle as a load for it, and as It would have worked.
These textile machine's vary in length and width depending on the manufacturer, the machine that we acquired was a 60 foot 'Bentley Cotton', all of it was available, but with the trailer being only 32 foot we decided to just have half of it, and they would have been split if being transported any distance anyway.
It's being loaded with a 10 ton capacity American built 'Towmotor' forklift, picking the machine up like this would have ruined it, with such small clearances involved in these machines, that's why a cradle was used.