450L Gas-Sensitive Vacuum Tanker – Highway Towable

The 450-Litre Vac Tank Bowser: A Superior Successor to the Alan Taylor Unit The market once relied on the Alan Taylor Unit (ATU) for essential vacuum tank bowser services. With its trading halt, a significant need has emerged for a dependable and efficient replacement. Our 450-litre Vac Tank Bowser is engineered to not only fill this gap but to offer enhanced capabilities and performance, making it an ideal successor to the ATU. Designed for Utility Excellence: Meeting and Exceeding Industry Needs Our focus at Trailer Engineering is on delivering a product that excels in the critical tasks once handled by the ATU. The 450-litre Vac Tank Bowser is the perfect solution for utility companies, optimised for extracting water from gas mains with precision and reliability. Its advanced features ensure that it stands out as a top choice for industry professionals. Proven Performance: Trusted by Industry Leaders Our commitment to quality is reflected in our track record. Esteemed clients like Transco, British Gas, Wales and West, Cadent Gas, and Guernsey Gas have already chosen our 450-litre Vac Tank Bowser for their operations. Your Next-Generation Vacuum Tanker Solution As the utility sector seeks to replace their existing fleets, our 450-litre Vac Tank Bowser emerges as the go-to solution. Its versatility in applications, especially in gas mains to water extraction, positions it as the ideal replacement for the ATU. We are poised to redefine the standards in vacuum tanker technology, offering a product that not only matches but surpasses the legacy of the ATU. Benefits of Using Trailer Engineering’s 450 Litre Vac Tanker Trailer Engineering’s 450-litre vac tanker contains a flame arrestor to suction the inlet / outlet of the compressor, twin clear filter bowls fitted to the discharge side of the compressor, 1 to catch oil/vapour mist and the other filled with medical charcoal granules to remove odours from the exhaust air. The 450-litre vac tanker has a rear-mounted spring rewind hose reel with 16m of reinforced 1” suction hose terminating with a 1” cam lock fitting c/w cap. Fixed hose-to-hose reel having cam lock fittings on the end so that it can be connected to either the suction inlet of the tank or the discharge valve from the tank. There is also an additional 20m extension hose stored in a basket with cam-lock fittings. All above are mounted on GB-approved 1500kg gross capacity chassis constructed from 100 x 50 RSC with cross bearers to suit our 450-litre vac tanker, single independent rubber torsion beam axle fitted with 200 x 50 auto reverse Knott brakes, 4 stud hubs, 185 x 13 commercial trailer tyres, moulded mudguards, 2000kg auto reverse coupling fitted with ball or eye. Parking brake breakaway cable, telescopic jockey wheel, tow height set at 13”. Rear LED lighting board in a recessed protective channel, oblong number plate holder clips. Full road lighting terminating by 13 pin plugs with 7 pin adaptor. Side and front reflectors. Whole chassis hot dip galvanised, lockable storage tool box fitted to chassis, The vacuum tankers (ATU) tank is hot dipped galvanised and then painted to a B/S or RAL single colour to suit customers’ requirements as standard. Stainless steel vacuum tanks are available upon request. Other Applications Of The 450L Vacuum Tanker The 450-litre vacuum tanker can also be configured for attending fuel spillages to retrieve the spilt fuel by using a hand-held vacuum blade. This 450-litre vacuum tank is perfect for fast recovery of fuel spillages on the roadside and in hard-to-reach places as it is of a compact design manufactured on a fast tow trailer chassis. Other vacuum tank sizes are available on request. Please see the video below for an example of a vacuum tanker designed for fuel spillage clean-up duties with a handheld vacuum. Why Is This Vacuum Tanker Known As The Alan Taylor Unit (ATU)? As we deal with more and more utility companies particularly within the gas mains sector, we keep getting asked about the Alan Taylor Unit. Upon research and stories from the gas sector it turns out that there was once a problem with having water enter the gas mains in which would result in large areas losing the mains gas supply. So there was a race on to find a way to solve this issue by removing water from the gas mains. The result was to use a specialist vacuum tanker that could be connected to the mains and suck out the unwanted water. This is where these vacuum tankers found their name as the ATU (Alan Taylor Unit) because it was named after the gas engineer that come up with the concept of extracting the water from the gas mains. Upon reasearch and development Trailer Engineering have redesigned and improved this type of vacuum tanker that has all of the required safety features and the capability of having the perfect balance of suction for extracting the water as too much suction can remove the gas from the mains but at the same time not enough suction will not remove the water. Trailer Engineering’s Gas sensitive ATU vacuum tanker comes as standard with primary and secondary overflow protection on the vacuum tanker as well as pressure relief valve, vacuum relief valve, pressure clock, lockable rear ball valves. On the vacuum pump there is a padlock facility to ensure the vacuum pump is locked into the suction mode to prevent anyone from pressure-rising the gas mains. Other safety features include a spark arrestor on the Yanmar engines exhaust and a flame trap on the end of line vacuum pumps exhaust that is fitted after a oil mist separating filter system. As the manufacturers of vacuum tankers / Alan Taylor Unit’s Trailer Engineering can build a bespoke vacuum tanker to suit your requirements.