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A4,200-GAL, eight-wheeled tanker will be one of six Foden vehicles to he exhibited at the Commercial Motor Show, which opens at Earls Court, London, on September 23. The tanker will be powered by a Gardner 6LX engine driving both axles of the rear bogie through a 12-speed gearbox.
A similar engine and:transmission will be fitted in an eight-wheeled tipper, whilst a 24-ton-gross tipping bulk-cement tanker is to have a 6LX engine with a five-speed gearbox. The two tippers will both employ driving axles of unusually high ratio-4.8 to 1—presumably to offset the limited speed of the Gardner engine.
A six-wheeled overseas model to be shown is to have a Cummins NH 220 oil engine producing 212 b.h.p., a 12-speed gearbox, and a double-drive rear bogie with 5.2-to-I-ratio axles. Air brakes and power-assisted steering will be fitted.
The only exhibit with a Foden engine is to be an FED6/30 dumper. This will have the Mark III two-stroke developing 150 b.h.p. at 2,400 r.p.m.
Foden four-wheelers are to be represented by a 5LW-powered KG.5/14 chassis with a 12-speed gearbox and an 18-ft.-long van body.
13 COUNTRIES TO JOIN IN SAFETY RESEARCH
DELEGATES from 13 member and associated countries of the 0.E.E.C. have recommended that an international body should be set up to foster road safety research. This was the most important decision taken at a four-day international meeting, which ended last Friday, at the Road Research Laboratory at Langley, Bucks.
The meeting also recommended that each country should set up a national committee for road safety research, which would, additionally, provide a link with the proposed international body.
A consultative panel of experts will be formed to consider the steps necessary to carry out these two recommendations. A further international meeting is recommended to be called within 12 months.
1500,000 PLAN FOR U.T.A. BUSSTATIONS DETAILS of a 1500.000scheme, to streamline and modernize the operating facilities of the Ulster Transport Authority in Belfast, were given last week when a new £100,000 bus station in Oxford Street, Belfast, was opened by Lord Brookeborough, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
The Oxford Street station is the first step in the Authority's development plan for handling buses which operate in and out of the city. It is estimated that 15,000 people will pass through it each day.
The next step will be to rebuild the present Smithfield station, and later it is hoped to provide a further modern station at Great Victoria Street. This will be linked with the railway station and the British European Airways' terminal.