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Steel Bodies in Kit Form

24th February 1961
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ASTEEL body, in the form of a

" do-it-yourself " kit, for a tipper or platform body is being offered by the Carter Engineering Co. (Tamworth), Ltd„ Industrial Estate, Lichfield Road, Tamworth, Staffs.

The body is a sheet steel design of panel construction and is offered in dropside, platform or fixed-side types. The body is assembled by using Huckbolts to fix the prefabricated punched panels. The tipping version can be fitted with any make of ram gear.

Price quoted for an assembled 6.87-cu.yd. tipper body, exclusive of mounting charges and ram gear, is £135.

Carter Engineering was started last December. Among bodies already built has been a 13-cu.-yd. coal tipper on an Austin chassis for Hickson Bros., Ltd.. Tamworth. This vehicle has floor and sides of resin-bonded plywood I-in, thick for the floor and fin, thick for the sides: 1-in,-long Huckbolts were used to connect the sides to the uprights.

Another resin-bonded plywood body is being built for Whittaker Ellis, Ltd.. which will be used to carry long trunk gas pipes.

The company is also engaged on developing versions of its sheet-steel body for fitting to Leyland and Guy sixand eight-wheeled chassis.

Taxes or Tolls?

From our Political Correspondent

THE preliminary guide to the Govern' ment's estimates for 1961-62, provided by the Vote on Account, shows that expenditure on the roads is to go up from the £122m. being spent in the current year, to £137m. next year.

Much of this will go on the improvement of the trunk road and motorway system. M.P.s of all parties are anxious to find out from the Government whether they intend to help finance motorway building by the imposition of tolls.

From all quarters there is strong opposition to this idea; members were saying last week that the collection of tolls would make road conditions chaotic at the many check points which would have to be set up to control vehicles joining the motorways from feeder roads.

If, and this is seen emerging as a new trend in the Government's financial planning, the users of Exchequer-financed facilities or services are to be asked to pay more by way of charges, there will be much pressure on Ministers to increase road taxation rather than impose toll charges on the new roads.

R.S.A. HOWARD PRIZE

THE Royal Society of Arts announce that entries for the Howard Prize for 1961 of £50 for Mechanical Motive Power may be sent to the secretary at John Adam Street, Adelphi, London, W.C.2, not later than July 31. The prize is awarded annually to the author of a treatise on some aspect of the subject of motive agents.

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Organisations: HE Royal Society of Arts
Locations: Austin, London

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