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L.C.C. Ambulance Show Extended
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THE London County Council's ambulance exhibition, which was to have closed earlier this week, is now being kept open by special request until next Tuesday, March 24 (Saturday and Sunday excepted). The main exhibit at this special show, which is at the L.C.C. Wandsworth Supplies Depot, Merton Road, is the L.C.C.'s own ambulance and the B.M.C. LD chassis on which it is ' mounted; this vehicle incorporates a number of innovations including a " space-strung " stretcher bed, Webasto combustion heater and Easco Amplibell, all of which were described in The Commercial Motor road test report published on January 31.
The stretcher bed, developed by the L.C.C. in conjunction with Delaney Gallay Ltd., is shown on a vibrating platform, demonstrating with the aid of an oscilloscope the extent to which a patient can be protected from road shocks and vibration. The Webasto combustion heater is, we are told, to become the standard heater on L.C.C. ambulances; running on paraffin it makes heat available in as little as 90 sec. and readily maintains a temperature of around 75°F.
Also shown is a Bedford Lomas ambu
lance which carries six sitting patients and a stretcher, while a background to the display is provided by a horse-drawn ambulance of 1883 vintage and a more conventional 1926 vehicle built by W. and G. Ducros for the Metropolitan Asylum Board.
ORDERS AND DELIVERIES
MILITANTS FOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY The Compagnie Generale de Geophysique of France has ordered three A.E.C. Militant 6 x 6 chassis for use on an extensive geological survey in the outback areas of Queensland, Australia.
LARGE HAROLD WOOD CONTRACT: Harold Wood and Sons Ltd., Heckniondwike, Yorkshire, one of Britain's largest road tanker operators, has ordered 64 A.E.C. Mammoth Major eight-wheeled chassis to be fitted with tanker bodies, and 72 A.E.C. Mandator tractive units to haul tanker semitrailers. The orders were placed through C.V. (Sales and Repairs) Ltd., of Basildon.
ALEXANDERS AGAIN FOR GLASGOW The 162 Leyland Atlantean double-deckers recently ordered by Glasgow Corporation will be fitted with bodywork by Walter Alexander and Co. (Coacbbuilders) Ltd., Falkirk, at a total cost of 1.609,363.
TIPPERS REPLACE RAILWAY: A fleet of It Commer CADYE 762 AB series tippers fitted with Edbro 3AT, twin-ram side-tipping gears has replaced a private railway in a densely wooded and mountainous region of Tasmania. The railway had been in use for 70 years by the Mt. Lyell Mining Co. to carry copper and its by-products 221 miles from Queenstown to the west coast.
SMITHS ELECTRICS IN SOUTH AFRICA: Smiths Delivery Vehicles Ltd., Team Valley, Gateshead-on-Tyne, introduced its range of models to the dairy trade in South Africa, last year. Smiths' distributor, J. II. Plane and Co. Lid., of Johannesburg, has imported a considerable number of and 2-ton chassis, which are fitted with local bodies, batteries and chargers. Nels Rust Dairy will shortly be operating 16 of these.
MORE FLEETLINES FOR BURY: Bury Corporation Transport has placed a repeat order for six Daimler Fleetline doubledecker bus chassis.
CLAYMORES FOR MERCHANTS: United Builders Merchants Ltd. of Bristol have ordered 16 Albion Claymore longwheelbase underrloor-engined 5-ton chassis. Bonallack and Sons Ltd. will build the alloy platform bodies with gantry-type headboards and the vehicles are fitted with Tecalemit automatic chassis lubrication.