Addlestone Commercials - used commercial vehicles, truck sales, skip, hook loaders, crane vehicles

<body bgcolor="#0099FF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0"> <h1><b>commercial vehicles, used commercial vehicles, truck sales, skip loaders, hook loaders, crane vehicles, tippers, curtain siders, furniture lutons, grab tippers, refrigerated vehicles, drop side trucks, municipal vehicles, specialised vehicles, beaver tails, triaxle trailers, box vehicles, addlestone commercials</b></h1> <h2>Addlestone Commercials was established in 1974 in our current premises in Surrey. We are a family business selling pre-owned commercial vehicles of all types. We particularly pride ourselves in supplying more specialised vehicle types such as skip loaders, hook loaders, and all types of vehicle-mounted cranes. We hold approximately 60 to 100 vehicles in stock at one time.</h2> <h3><a href="index.htm">commercial vehicles</a>, <a href="about.htm">used commercial vehicles</a>, <a href="bottom.htm">truck sales</a>, <a href="contact.htm">skip loaders</a>, <a href="home.htm">hook loaders</a>, <a href="home_old.htm">crane vehicles</a>, <a href="index-singlepage.htm">tippers, curtain siders</a>, <a href="rentals.htm">furniture lutons, grab tippers</a>, <a href="top.htm">refrigerated vehicles, drop side trucks</a>, <a href="top_old.htm">municipal vehicles, specialised vehicles</a>, <a href="view.htm">beaver tails, triaxle trailers</a>, <a href="about.htm">box vehicles, addlestone commercials</a></h3> <p>Lorry, large, cargo-carrying road vehicle. The name was originally applied to type of railway wagon. Lorries, or trucks, carry a vast range of everyday and industrial goods, and vary in size from small vans to giant vehicles that can weigh more than 50 tonnes. The lorry evolved from the passenger-carrying motor car that first appeared in Germany in 1886; it was powered by that vehicle’s stroke internal-combustion engine. While the vast majority of lorries were initially petrol-fuelled, some were steam-powered from the outset. These coal-fired vehicles continued to be produced well into the 1930s. The diesel-engined lorry, with its greater efficiency, versatility, fuel economy, and longer life, was introduced by Karl Benz in Germany in 1924. It began to gain prominence in the commercial vehicle sector and has dominated it since the years immediately following World War II. The 1920s also saw the appearance of the multi-six-wheeled lorry, along with the articulated vehicle, in which a powered tractor unit is connected flexibly to a trailer. During World War II, the American four-wheel-drive truck became a highly effective vehicle on rough terrain.</p> <p> Lorry design underwent considerable refinement after the war, with more and more goods being carried by road and fewer by rail. The American forward-control tractor with tilting cab was introduced in the early 1950s and soon became available throughout the world. In 1954 the Swedish company Volvo turbocharged the diesel engine, which increased its power by up to 50 per cent. Cargo moved by lorry includes food for supermarkets, container carriers, cars, and bulk materials such as liquids transported in purpose-designed tankers. Under British regulations, lorries of more than 3.5 tonnes cargo capacity are classed as heavy goods vehicles and their drivers require a special licence. Lorries of over 16 tonnes gross weight need speed limiters restricting them to 96 km/h (60 mph), or in some cases 89 km/h (56 mph). Tachographs are used to check compliance with rules on drivers’ hours of work and rest periods. Special regulations apply in Britain to lorries transporting hazardous loads, including a requirement for them to carry “hazchem” warning signs. Larger lorries are generally known as juggernauts, after a form of the Hindu god Krishna, whose image was hauled in processions on a massive wheeled vehicle. </p> </body>