Kent Show attracts many newcomers
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ST WEEK'S 50th annivery Kent County Show, 'ays more than an agriculal show, previewed some of first V-plated vehicles. The le section of the show, the ;est ever held on the Det; site, included most of the ional truck dealers and dismtors who traditionally e part as well as several vco-ners.
parshatts of Kent Ltd, with w stand no 1, occupied a minent site facing the main rance. With a full range of rcedes-Benz vehicles, inling the new Unimog and -Tmc, this exhibitor also luded the first lwb 1617 ssiF to be sold in the UK h a factory-built sleeper option.
,nother 1617 exhibit, a on-type van for Lep Transt Ltd of Dover, had a per cab conversion supxl by the bodybuilder, .rshatts of Portsmouth.
,n impressive display by nmercial Truck Services utbern), of Sittingbourne, the new Foden range of vies included a Gardner 6 "2-engined Haulmaster with droHoist bodywork for a sex firm of ferrous metal chants. The firm now also
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sells Fiat commercials; exhibits included a Tautlinerbodied Fiat 159 for the Portway rental fleet as well as a Z-range vehicle also fitted with a curtain-sided body A Dodge R 3820 tractor unit for a Kent haulier, shown by the Canterbury Motor Company Ltd, was coupled to an Anthony Carrimore-bodied York semi-trailer. Leyland exhibits, by Caffyns Ltd and Dutton-Forshaw Ltd, included Clydesdale-based heating oil tanker.
Eurospeed Ltd, of Maidstone, showed a George Neville Samsonlite-bodied DAF 2300 eight-wheeler as well as two examples from the Scammell Trailers range of current models.
• Bill Godwin