The present invention relates to lift trucks and particularly to mobile trucks of the so called
“fork lift'type in which the platform upon which the load to be transported is placed has: a fork-
like appearance owing to the fact that it comprises a plurality of elongated parallel mem bers
extending horizontally from a supporting base, these members generally tapering outward ly
from the base and thus resembling tines. Many lift trucks of this type are now in use for the
transportation of goods through relatively short distances, particularly from place to place …