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Fire-engine. Single-deck Bus.
Platform Lorry. Motor Coach.
STAND No. 44.
THERE IS probably no need for us to remind visitors to the Show to pay a call at the Leyland stand. Vehicles manufactured by this company have won a reputation second to none, and thee. exhibits, though not startlingly new, are certainly doing much to maintain this reputation. They consisteof a four ton 36-40 h.p. Model 0. passenger type chassis with a fine Edinburgh type singledeck bus body and fitted with C.A.V. electric lighting and Clincher solid tyres. A three ton 30-32 h.p. Model C.1 passenger chassis carrying a 20-seater de luxe char-h-bancs body provided with Smith's electric lighting set; in addition, this vehicle has domed mudguards and Michelin steel disc wheels, shod with Michelin pneumatic tyres, single at the front and twin at the rear. The five ton
40 h.p. Model P. Leyland is represented by a chassis fitted with cab and platform with stanchions and chains . No Leyland exhibit would be complete without one of their famous fire-engines. The example shown is a standard 65 h.p. 500 gallon engine, With Rees-Roturbo rotary pump, C.A.V.. self-starter, and Shrewsbury and Challiner cross-ribbed tyrea. This machine will carry a 40 ft. escape, and is to the order of the Broadetairs Corporation.
,Particular attention should .be paid tb the new 5 in. bore and 6 in. stroke Leyland engine on the five ton vehicle. This engine has four cylinders, cast in paies, with the Nalves on one side and operated. by a single camshaft. The connecting rods are fitted with four bolts instead of two, lubrication is on the forced-feed
• principle, a gear type • &Imp being employed.
Particular attention has been given to the question of cooling, and an eightbladed fan has been subetituted for the four-bladed used on other models. The water jacketing of the cylinders has been very caiefully attended to' and ample water spaces are left round the exhaust Valve seats; ineidentally, the cylinders present a curiously square appearance_
The three and four ton chassis bath employ a four-speed-and-reverse gearbox and overhead worm-driven rear axle. The five ton chassis, however, has a fourspeed gearbox and a heavy type bevel • and spur double-reduction rear axle. The four ton passenger type chassis has a four-cylindered engine, with the cylinders cast in pairs and L-headed, the bore and stroke being 41 ins, and 6 ins., and the power developed at. normal engine epeed 40 b.h.p. The magneto and pump are positioned across the front Of the engine, thus being readily acceesible for inspection or repair. A Ferodo-faced cone clutch takes the drive to .a fourspeed-and-reverse gearbox slung at, four points front two tubular cress-members. Behind the gearbox is the usual foot brake, and a short shaft, with two block type universal joints, is situated between the gearbox and the propeller shaft 'proper, which is enclosed in a tubular radius and torque nserober, the front end of which is supported in a spherical housing carried by a stout cross-member. The frame is constructed with pressed channel section steel gide-members, each of which is stroported by a stout teems; the cross-members are of exceptional strength.
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