Weber container
The Weber container ( "Weber System" ) was a transport concept of the German Federal Post Office in the early 1950s .
history
In 1947, the Deutsche Bundespost sought to accelerate parcel transport and to simplify the work processes in the large parcel handling points by using containers. The aim was to combine the parcels into loading and transport units at an early stage - as with letters - and to maintain the closed unit for as long as possible. The container traffic had to adapt to the existing traffic relationships and means of transport. The containers had to be able to be loaded onto both motor vehicles and rail vehicles, thus enabling a combination of motor vehicle and rail. Container traffic saved the individual loading of the parcels and thus manpower and time, and it also reduced damage and loss of parcels.
The Deutsche Bundespost first appeared in public with its container traffic at the International Container Exhibition in Zurich from April 14 to 23, 1951.
use
The metal container with a mobile base was named after Oberpostrat Weber of the Oberpostdirektion Köln . The lightweight steel container had a footprint of 0.9 × 2.0 meters and a height of 1.65 meters. The capacity was about 110 packages. With a dead weight of 180 kg, it could take a payload of around 550 kg. The containers were open on one side, completely smooth on the outside and designed in such a way that they could be transported on the platform by road vehicles ( Mercedes-Benz L 3500 and L 6600 as well as Büssing LU 77 and Magirus-Deutz S 3000 ) as well as by railroad cars . They were placed in rows close together on the vehicles using special stationary or movable hoists so that the open side was covered. At the reloading point, the containers were placed on simple, mobile underframes for manual or electric tractor operation; they then fulfilled the tasks of a platform or packing chamber car. Since the beginning of 1951, the Weber tanks were mainly used in the Rhine-Ruhr power plant.
From mid-1951 onwards, Weber system containers were also transported by rail, on the Cologne-Stuttgart route, open on stake wagons . A stake wagon could fit six containers in three rows, making a total of 18.
The container according to the Weber system has proven itself - except for the transport from place to place - in urban area transport for the transport of parcels and parcels. He saved having to rework and distribute the individual programs several times. Its area of use was not limited to traffic between the post offices or between the post office and the loading station, but could also be used for transportation from the bulk mailer to the post office and train station.
The Central Post Office was used to develop and procure suitable containers .
See also
literature
- Manual dictionary of the postal system ; 2nd Edition; Pp. 119–121 (container traffic)
- Journal for the Post and Telecommunications System No. 16/1950; P. 537 ff.
- Journal for Transport Science , Issue 3/4 1951; P. 160 ff.
- Transport science publications of the Ministry of Economics and Transport North Rhine-Westphalia, issue 15, Wosnick-Müller “Deutsche Post heute”; P. 36 ff.