Another Air-sprung Guy Model
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IN addition to the two air-sprung pas
senger vehicles to be exhibited at Earls Court by Guy Motors, Ltd. (announced exclusively in The Commercial Motor last week), a Guy Formidable tractor with rear air springs is to be displayed on the stand of G. Scammell and Nephew, Ltd.
The tractor win be coupled to a 4,000gal. spirit-tank semi-trailer, the axle of which is also air sprung, and the gross weight of the laden outfit is said to be 20 tons. Carrimore running gear is used on the semi-trailer, incorporating Dunlop rolling-lobe springs, and the axle is carried on rubber-bushed radius arms.
• Dunlop,rolling-lobe diaphragm units on the tractor are located behind the axle centre line at the ends of the radius arms. Between the axle and the springs there are large telescopic dampers, and there is a levelling valve on each side of the chassis frame, linked directly to the axle tubes. A Panhard rod behind the axle provides transverse location.
The spring units have integral surge tanks, and therefore are not bulky. Nylon piping is used extensively for the air supply to the springs, and on the semitrailer. The tractor has a wheelbase of 8 ft. 9 in., and is powered by a Meadows 150 b.h.p. oil engine.
REYNOLDS AND BOUGHTON COMBINE
ANEW company, Reynolds Boughton Engineering Services, Ltd., has been formed to combine the vehicle bodybuilding and engineering activities of W. J. Reynolds "(Motors), Ltd., New Road, Dagenham, with those of T. T. Bdughton and Sons, Ltd., Amersham, Bucks.
Design and manufacture will be concentrated at the main works at Amersharn where ample facilities, including drawing offices, machine and assembly shops, are available.
At the Commercial Motor Show at Earls Court, Stand 29 will be held under the title of the new company. The major exhibit will be an entirely new civil engineers' winch vehicle on a Thames Trader 4 x 4 chassis of 13 ft. 4 in. wheelbase.
M.P.T.A. ESSAY AWARDS CASH prizes amounting to more than £66 have been awarded by. the Municipal Passenger Transport Association in their 1958 essay competition.
Winner of the section for administrative and supervisory staffs was Mr. Harold McDonald, statistical and investigation afficer of Leeds City Transport. Other prizes in this section went to Mr. Walter Lawrence. traffics assistant with Aberdeen 2orporation, and Mr. Henry Miller, leputy chief clerk to Doncastet 2orporation.
In the operating staffs section, Mr. Brian A. Salmon, a Reading Corporation :onductor, won first prize. Other awards acre made to Mr. George R. Barnes, a 7,ardiff Corporation driver, and Mr. -larold Koos. Huddersfield Corporation :onductor.