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Oil Explorers• COSTING £11,000, six air-conditioned caravans especially designed for use in a tropical climate have been shipped to the Pakistan Shell Oil Co., to provide sleeping and working accommodation for geologists and geophysicists engaged on oil-survey and exploration duties. Suppliers were the United British Caravan Co., Ltd., West Drayton, Middx.
Each caravan is 16 ft. long and 7 ft. 6 in, wide, with headroom of 6 ft. 9 in., and is fitted with an air-conditioning unit designed to cope with an ambient temperature of 120' F. The canopy roofs have a 4-in, air space underneath, and sun awnings down both sides and the rear. Walls, roof and floor have 2 in, of glass-fibre insulation, and for maxi= mum heat deflection the exteriors are in burnished aluminium. Windows and doors are fitted with copper-gauze fly screens.
The fleet consists of an office caravan fitted with drawing boards, desks and filing cupboards; a mess caravan; a general-purpose caravan which can be used as additional office space or .rest room and has two folding single beds: and three two-berth caravans for night accommodation,