page_title: Lister Auto-Truck
section_title: Variations
hierarchical_section_title: Lister Auto-Truck / Variations
caption_attribution_description: Panasonic G1 14-45 Lens
context_page_description: The Lister Auto-Truck was a small monowheel tractor built for moving light loads around factories, railway yards and similar sites. They were built by R A Lister and Company of Dursley, Gloucestershire, well known for their range of small stationary engines.
context_section_description: Variations of the basic Auto-Truck were soon produced. These included lifting platform bodies with a hydraulic pump and a long hand lever alongside the driver's saddle. They were used either for moving heavy loads around factories, to avoid lifting, or else as a pallet truck which could be moved under a wooden platform before lifting it off the floor to move it. Tipping hoppers were also made, although owing to the limitations of the small wheels, these were not intended for gardens or construction sites, as has often been claimed, but were mostly for collecting waste materials around factories. Another variation shortened the body and the truck was used for towing trailers.
  Road performance of the Auto-Truck was improved by fitting larger rear wheels with pneumatic tyres. Several tyre and suspension spring options remained in production throughout its history. An early development even offered the Auto-Truck as a lightweight tractor for use on roads, sold to local councils and the like for street cleaning. Many Auto-Trucks were registered for road use and carried a number plate, but none are known to have had lighting or other road equipment fitted.
caption: Later, 1964, diesel-engined Auto-Truck with long chassis and road wheels
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