16-tonners with Air Springs for Reed
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DESIGNED to carry payloads of 16i tons, 18 Eagle semi-trailers with Andre air suspension are to be supplied to Reed Transport, Ltd., and Cropper and Colthrop Transport, Ltd., an associate. Other features include a Davies fifth wheel undercarriage with rapid winddown gear of high-tensile light alloy. Avon and Firestone tubeless tyres will be fitted. The levelling valves are of Clayton Dewandre manufacture.
Fourteen semi-trailers will be used by Reed Transport under C licence and four by Cropper and Colthrop under special-A licence. Weighing 3 tons 5 cwt., each semi-trailer will have a 27-ft,-long body with a steel frame, double timber floor and light-alloy headboard, Nine Foden-Gardner 6LW lightweight tractors of special pattern are also to be delivered. These will have an unladen weight of four tons. The operators state that,the payload of the combined outfits is substantially greater than could have been obtained with any other articulated vehicle.