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Show Simple Seat for Extra Hand Is Easy to Put On Long-haul trucks carrying building material, furniture, etc., usually have a crew of sufficient size to enable the loading and unloading to be done with ease and dispatch. Long journeys require re-quire some facilities for seating the crew, and where the extra hand cannot can-not be accommodated on the load, or In wet weather, the simple folding seat shown in tlie drawing will be appreciated, as the regular truck seat The Extra Helper Is Accommodated on a Long Haul by a Simple Folding Fold-ing Seat in the Cab. usually will not take more than two without Inconveniencing the driver. The seat proper Is hinged to a piece of wood bolted to the inside of the dash, and has two slides made of flat steel screwed to the underside. The bracket that supports the seat Is also hinged to the dash, and, at the top, has a piece of round steel that will slide under the flat-steel slides fastened fas-tened to it. The simplest method of attaching the rod Is to weld it to a fiat-steel bracket, which is drilled for heavy screws. The top of the seat may be padded, and, when not required, re-quired, folds flat against the dash. With this arrangement the extra hand Is fully protected from rain and snow. Popular Mechanics Magazine. |