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TIPPER bodybuilders, E. Wilcox Ltd, of Peterborou is to sell complete tipp semi-trailers direct from St( starting next month. But company will continue custom-build its alumini alloy bodies to meet spec. customer requirements.
Wilcox will be offering fr, stock its 30cum (40cu standard general purpc R. W. STOLL, director Gould Inc, the Americ battery company, visited E tam n this week during fact-finding visit to Europe.
Gould's automotive batt( division, with more than years' experience in the fie is one of the major produci of calcium lead maintenan free batteries used on privl and commercial vehicles in t US.
Until now, sales of ma tenance-free batteries ha been concentrated mainly the replacement market, t General Motors' Delco, t other leading brand, will ficted to all 1978 GM mod for Lhe private sector.
And the Gould range 1been accepted by Peterb Ford and Kenworth who of it as original equipment their commercial vehicles.
The calcium lead battery at a new discovery. It has en used in the manufacture F the large stand-by type ittery fOr over 20 years, but Lie to the production difficules, has been limited to this 'ea until recently.
Two attractive characterises of this type of battery are kid to be that, once charged, it able to contain stored iergy for much longer than le conventional automotive attery; and it. is able to conuct an electrical current more fficiently due to the material sed in the construction of the lates.
But the British counterparts I GM and Ford do not intend fit this type of battery as riginal equipment at present, lough they are keeping the tuation under review.
Before Mr Stoll returns to le US, he will visit CFEC, ie French-based company in rhich Gould have a con'oiling interest before decidig whether the maintennce-free battery should be roduced for the European larket.