Freeline with LFPS. on Show
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T EST vehicles available fOr inspection I. at the open day of the Motor Industry Research Association's proving ..ground at Nuneaton, last week, included an experimental Daimler Freeline chassis with independent front suspension and Lockheed power-assisted hydraulic steering.
It is understood that these features will not appear on a chassis at this year's Commercial Motor Show because they could not be included in the specification of a production vehicle.
Visitors were taken on a conducted tour • in aDaimler Freeline 41-seat luxury coach with a Burlingham Seagull body and two Midland " Red" underfloor-engined buses.
Constructional work on the highspeed circuit was inspected. It is hoped that the track will be ready for use next year.
TRANS-AUSTRALIAN ROAD SERVICE
A FURNITURE REM OV A L co nricern in Perth, Western Australia. has obtained a Leyland Hippo to inaugurate a service to Brisbane, 3,500 miles away. The route, across many hundreds or miles of desert, will touch Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.
The operator, East-West Removals. Ltd., has mounted a body on the Hippo chassis to accommodate the contents of three normal-sized houses. The vehicle is 33 ft. long, 13 ft. high and 8 ft. wide. A pioneer run was made between Perth and Sydney last year by a pantechnicon based on a Leyland Tiger chassis. This journey took 206 hours' running time and the fuel-consumption rate worked, out at 12 m.p.g.
SCAMMELL LORRIES' PROGRESS
EXPORT sales were at a higher level fast year than in 1950. Work on vehicles designed especially for overseas is satisfactory and models in this category may be in production early next year. said Mr. E. R. Cartwright, C.B.E., M.I.0 E., chairman of Scammell .Lorries, Ltd., at the company's 29th annual general meeting.
He added that possible wage increases and difficulties in obtaining material made the improvement, or even maintenance, of output costly and difficult to forecast.
DUAL-PURPOSE FIRE ENGINE
TN conjunction with John Kerr and Co. I(Manchester), Ltd., a dual-purpose fire engine has been built by J. H. Jennings and Son, Ltd., on a Cornmer 7-ton chassis.
A sliding-trunnion mounting is provided for a wheeled escape, which fits inside the body when the vehicle is in motion and can be drawn back for dismounting purposes. The suction hoses are readily accessible in troughs below the escape undercarriage. A water tank of 400-gallons capacity is mounted behind' a limousine-type cab which has comfortable seating for six in addition to the driver.