Willys Overland Sales and Service in Holland.
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Messrs. U. C. L. Sieberg, of Amsterdam, Holland, the Willys Overland distributors for that country, who have offices and showrooms at the Stasihouderskade, 143, have recently opened at the Scheldeplein, in Amsterdam, a new service building and garage, Which is claimed to be the most modern establishment of its kind in Holland.
The building has been well designed, and embodies an electrical department, a repair shop, an assembly room, spare parts department, etc. The whole of the main floor at the right of the building consists of the repair shop, the equipment of which enables all classes of work to be undertaken. To avoid the danger due to exhaust gases in the repair shop, and in other parts of the building where engines may ho running, a pipe-line with exhauster, to which the exhaust pipes of vehicles may be connected by means of flexible hoses, is in stalled.
The spare-parts department carries a complete stock of parts for Willys Overland commercial vehicles, An Eagle Trailer for a Special Use.
The special trailer which was necessary for transporting the doll's house presented to Princess Elizabeth was constructed by the Eagle Engineering Co., Ltd., of Warwick. It has a platform body of particularly robust construction, measuring 24 ft. 6 ins, long and 8 ft, 3 ins. wide. The main frame of the body is of rolled-steel channel and has cleated members electrically welded in position. Three ring bolts are provided on each side, to which lifting chains may be attached. The outside frame is of English oak, the floor being pitch pine. The loading height is about 2 ft.
An ordinary trailer would not have been suitable for the load which this one has to carry, but the Eagle concern, as in the past, has found no difficulty in meeting special requirements.