New Bonneted Albion for .11 Tons Gross
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A BONNETED Albion Clydesdale, I-I developed for the export market, will be one of the new vehicles to be shown at Earls Court. Its power unit is a Leyland 5.76-litre 100 b.h.p. oil engine.
Unit-mounted with the engine is an Albion five-speed constant-mesh gearbox. The drive to the overhead-worm rear axle •is by a two-piece propeller shaft having Hardy Spicer needleroller-bearing universal joints. A torsion damper is incorporated, Braking is by hydraulically operated two-leading-shoe units incorporating a vituum servo. The total friction area of the facings is 570 sq. in. Marks cam-and-double-roller steering gear and semi-elliptic springs figure in the specification.
Of all-steel construction, the Albiondesigned cab has a double-skinned roof, carriage-type doors with balanced drop windows and two-panel hinged windscreen.
The tyres are 10.00-20-in. (12-ply) and the whtelbase is 15.ft. 2 in. The gross laden weight is 11 tons.
VEHICLE RADIOS ON SHOW
FOUR makes of vehicle radio are on view at the Radio Show at Earls Court, London, which closes to-morrow, Pye, Ltd. (Stand 13), show their new transistorized set retailing at £46 15s., whilst E. K. Cole, Ltd. (Stand 24), and Philips Electrical, Ltd. (Stands 44 and 45), also display sets suitable for installation in the cabs of goods vehicles.
Equipment shown by Philco (Great Britain), Ltd. (Stand 22), lends itself to installation in coaches. The Philco eightvalve set can be connected to up to four loudspeakers.
On Stand 42, Murphy Radio, Ltd., show their recently introduced two-way radio equipment. An interesting exhibit on Stand 302, occupied by the Regular Army, is an Alvis Saracen six-wheeled car.
On Tuesday, the Garrard Engineering and Manufacturing Co., Ltd., makers of record players, and exhibitors at the Show, dispatched from Earls Court a specially modified Bedford demonstration van on a 4,000-mile Continental tour. The vehicle has six players installed on a bench along the off side of the body interior.
The vehicle's itinerary will take it through the Iron Curtain, and it is hoped to gain valuable export orders.
NEW ROAD WORKS START WORK has started on a new road, VI' nearly a mile long and 74 ft. wide, at Cosharn, on the northern outskirts of Portsmouth, to relieve congestion on the Southampton road. It will be known as the Wymering link road, and will provide a more direct route from the present junction of the London— Portsmouth road and the FolkestonePortsmouth—Southampton road to the junction of the Southampton road and the Western road.