SCG Euro-auto in service trials

20th October 1978, Page 26

20th October 1978

Page 26

Page 26, 20th October 1978 — SCG Euro-auto in service trials

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SELF-Changing Gears have unveiled a new automatic gearbox designed for European markets (stand 220).

The four-speed transmission features an in-built torque converter and hydrokinetic retarder. A limited number of pre-production gearboxes will be offered to manufacturers and major bus operators to allow proving trials, conducted over normal bus routes, during the next 12 months.

After successfully completing these tests the new transmission, known as RVK 15L, will go into production at Coventry.

The new gearbox incorporates many of the basic features of SCG's current semiautomatic unit which will en able users to utilise existing spare parts for repairs and servicing.

David Abell, managing director of SP Industries (formerly Leyland Special Vehicles) has stressed that the production of this new gearbox will not result in a conflict of interests between SCG (an SP subsidiary) and Leyland Vehicles Ltd, which has recently developed its own "Hydracyclic" transmission for the Titan double-decker.

He has said that the gearbox is designed to meet the needs of SCG's European customers whose buses are designed to accept SCG transmission. If the SCG market share is to be maintained, they must now offer a gearbox which is competitive in all respects and meets customers' current requirements.