Show i Saving Man ManPower I Ono One of the recent devices designed to save man labor is the slab handling storage battery truck which Is Isem employed em cm employed at the plant of a steel company In Cleveland to haul heavy pieces of ot steel from the storage yard to the heating heatIng heatIng heat- heat Ing furnaces says Popular Science Monthly The distance approximates C OO feet Before electricity was substituted substituted sub sub- for power man the slabs were loaded on hand trucks The new truck Is similar to the elevating elevating elevating ele ele- platform truck except that for tor Its elevating mechanism a tilting platform platform plat plat- form torm Is provided This platform Is secured secured se se- se cured to the rear axle by a pivot being being be be- ing Ini operated by a horizontal ram By manipulating the ram ram the platform Is moved toward a vertical position and its tl front edges are lowered |