Five-country Tours by Stockport Van
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nVER 7,000 miles will be covered in
the course of two Continental trips by a vehicle operated by C. and M. Yates Transport Ltd. of Heaton Chapel, Stockport. The unit, seen in an accompanying photograph, has been chartered by Renold Chains Ltd., Manchester, to transport prefabricated exhibition stands which on the first trip arc being taken to the Budapest Fair, Hungary, the Poznan Fair, Poland, and the International Oil Exhibition in Frankfurt. The vehicle left on its first trip last week and on a second journey this year visits will be
made to the British Industrial Fair in Zurich and the Brno Fair in Czechoslovakia.
Supplied through Manchester Garages Ltd., the Vehicle has a Thames Trader Mk. It chassis with pantechnicon body by S. Burrows of Ardwick, Manchester. It is 30 ft. long but the height has been kept down to 12 ft to bring it within the Austrian height regulations. A transparent Perspex roof and interior illumination are incorporated to facilitate working inside exhibition halls under poor lighting conditions.