CLASSIFICATION SELF-PROPELLED VEHICLE CONSTRUCTED TO
TRAVEL ON BOTH ROAD AND RAIL

 

A self-propelled vehicle, specially constructed to travel
on both road and rail, for electrical welding of rails. The vehicle in question:

- has been constructed on a chassis frame with solid
longitudinal rails and four tubular cross members, of steel;

- equipped with two traction axles fitted with two
pneumatic tyres each, retractable bogies and differentials, a diesel propelling
engine, a hydrostatic automatic transmission by cardan shafts from the engine
to the two axles, three braking systems;

- its pneumatic tyres are used for circulating the
vehicle on the track through contact with the rail wheels by means of existing
grooves on the extremities of rail axles with a maximum speed of 47 km/h or circulating
on road (with a maximum speed of 32 km/h) or entering and exiting the track;

- has a driving cabin with controls, a welding head
attached to a double boom mounted on a rotating turret for electric welding
operations, and a generator.

 

SUBHEADING 8705.90 
GIRs 1 (Note 4 (a) to Section XVII) and 6.

 

HS SUBHEADING CONSIDERED: 86.04
and  87.05

 

Cesar Olivier Dalston, www.dalston.com.br

 

Source: Harmonized System
Committee (50th Session – September
2012).