0 'Automatic' truck for Third World
10th August 1973, Page 32
10th August 1973
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After the presentation last year by Ford and General Motors, and more recently by VW, of "basic" transporters for assembly and use in under-developed countries International Harvester Company through the association with DAF has now introduced a similar project. The prototype WUT (World Utility Transport) has a Meccano-like chassis frame which can be integrated with locally built platform or box superstructures of timber, plastic or canvas. The power unit is the DAF two-cylinder 800cc engine of 34 bhp driving the rear wheels through a Variomatic transmission. With an overall length of I2ft the forward control WUT has a sheet metal cab, is 5ft-wide and has a nominal payload deck length of 7ft.