IS 11114 : Part 2 : 2006 /ISO 6746-1 : 2003 Earth-Moving Machinery - Definitions of Dimensions and Codes Part 2 Base Machine

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This Indian Standard (Part 2) (Second Revision) which is identical with ISO 6746-1:2003 Earth-movingmachinery - Definitions of dimensions and codes - Part 1: Base machine issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on therecommendation of the Material Handling Systems and Equipment Sectional Committee and approvalof the Mechanical Engineering Division Council.

This standard was first published in 1985. In the first revision ISO 6746-1 :1987 was adopted. Presentrevision has been taken up to harmonize it with the latest version of ISO Standard.

The text of the ISO Standard has been approved .as suitable for publication as an Indian Standardwithout deviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards..Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words?International Standard? appear referring to this standard, they shouldbe read as ?Indian Standard.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practiceis to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.

In this adopted standard, reference appears to certain International Standards for which Indian Standardsalso exist. The corresponding Indian Standards which are to be substituted in their places are listedbelow along with their degree of equivalence for the editions indicated: