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Lord Montagu at the wheel of an electric delivery van after it was recently presented to him by the directors of Harrods Knightsbridge store for his Motor Museum at Beaulieu. Hants. Another similar van was given to the Science Museum and two more will remain as the "flag vans" of the new Harrods fleet. The original fleet of 60 vans were built in the 1930s in Harrods' own engineering and coachbuilding shop at Barnes to their own design. Fully charged, their range was 60 miles.
Members of The Institute of Road Transport Engineers in the maintenance area of British Rail Hovercraft Ltd, Dover, when a party of 170 recently crossed by SRN 4 to Boulogne to study maintenance methods and operating techniques connected with commercial hovercraft services.
On behalf of the 2400 employees at the CAV Rochester (Kent) factory, machine tool setter Fred Collins (left) presents the 4 millionth DPA diesel fuel injection pump to Godfrey Messervy, CAV's director and general manager. In production since 1956, the DPA pump has made a remarkable contribution to the diesel engine industry. It is fitted to 63 per cent of all British multi-cylinder engines and to 26 per cent of all automotive diesel engines built in the western world. Production currently runs at 50,000 units per month.
A Vauxhall Motors service engineer, Keith Ransom, demonstrates fuel system adjustments on a Bedford VAS chassis to members of the Commonwealth Expedition—Comex 4. The expedition, travelling in Bedford /Duple coaches, leaves at the end of this month an a 17,500-mile journey to Pakistan, India, Ceylon, Malaysia and Singapore. At their training camp near Aldershot crew members were instructed in routine maintenance and simple emergency repairs. General Motors' Bedford dealers along the route have been alerted to assist in any more complex service requirements.