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A PRACTICAL RIGID SLIDING ROOF
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ONpage 363 of our Special Equipment Issue, dated October 28th, we published an illustration and brief details of the Saloonood four-panel allweather head for passenger vehicles, which is marketed by Weathershields, Ltd., 48, Moor Street, Birmingham. The company has introduced an improvement upon this multi-panel device in the form of a well-designed singlepanel type, which is to be marketed under the same name, and is even better suited to the needs of long-distance motor coaches.
In its standard form the single rigid panel of thenew Saloonood head gives an opening about 5 ft. wide and 6 ft. long, but on a coach with -a particularly big body an even larger opening
is possible. The sliding panel runs on small rollers and bridges the opening, and the weight is partly supported by all extra roller located in the centre of the rear cross-bearer of the panel, this running on an ash rail, with a brass wearing strip, mounted longitudinally on the fixed rear portion of the roof.
With the Saloonood head it is possible to arrange a luggage rack over the rear fixed portion, the sliding panel passing beneath the luggage carrier. The carrier itself must, of course, be strong enough to span the full width of the sliding panel.
The roof is fixed by the turning of wing nuts, which press bevelled brass washers into countersunk holes on simple securing brackets. Good provision throughout is made against the intrusion of rain through the joints when the roof is closed.