Identifier: gardencitiesinth01senn (find matches)
Title: Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Sennett, Alfred Richard
Subjects: Garden cities
Publisher: London, Bemrose
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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omize space they have sunk handles recessed into all four of their sides.To clear the wheels and enable the body to behung low, the sixteen bins at the rear are loadedand unloaded from the back, the last tier of binsbeing seen at B.B., B.B. in the half-back view. Inorder to obviate the necessity for the driver tomount the waggon during the operation of collec-tion, the vehicle has an auxiliary starting-lever andalso an auxiliary steering-wheel projecting from the1 near side, so that the waggon can be steered asthe men walk along the footpath. The auxiliarystarting-lever is seen at A, and the steering-wheelat S. The ordinary steering-wheel is upon thefootboard at W, the driving starting-lever Land the brake-lever H being on the off sideand worked from the seat T. Such a refuse-waggon, having a metallic body about 10 feet inlength, will carry fifty-six bins. The bins wouldbe the property of the Sanitary Authority, andwould be rented to the inhabitants at a charge to 484 A DC 0qo » n »
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f HYGIENIC ■ MO TOR D UST- CARTS 485 cover Interest and depreciation. The waggon, oncommencing its rounds, would be filled with emptybins, one of which would be left at each house fromwhich a charged bin was removed. At the de-structor the bins would be placed upon a conveyerand emptied mechanically into the charging hopperof the destructor. By means of this system of motor-collection ofhouse refuse, which would be hygienically perfectand far more expeditious than the present horsesystem, the refuse could conveniently be collectedin the early morning, and a dust-cart never makeits appearance in a Garden City. The refuse destructor, an important attribute ofmodern urban sanitation, is one, the operations ofwhich are invariably attended with disagreeableresults to the community. In the first place, theburning of refuse by the solid-fuel process entailsthe building of a lofty and unsightly chimney. Theburning is always attended by a disagreeable smell,whilst a vast quantity of impalpab

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