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Why not get the best of both worlds with the ROADRAILER?
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Now it's an 11-ton lorry, loaded in the usual way and driven by road to the railhead. Only 150 seconds to retract the road wheels and lower the rail wheels and hey presto now it's a rail vehicle, designed for through travel at an average speed of 60-65 m.p.h.
With the Roadrailer you can offer your customers increased range, cheaper long-distance haulage, overnight delivery at extreme distance as well as all the door-to-door convenience of road haulage. The Roadrailer can be adapted for liquids, timber, cement all kinds of traffic.
The introduction of the Roadrailer is in everybody's interest. It helps free the roads. It helps industry by using the sensible economy of long-distance rail haulage. And it helps the road haulier to offer even more attractive facilities to his customers.
PRESSED STEEL CO LTD
Railway 'Division, Linwood Factory, Paisley, Scotland LONDON OFFICE: Railway Division, 47 Victoria Street, London sm. HEAD OFFICE: Cowley, Oxford. BRUSSELS OFFICE: Rooms 2307 International Centre, Place Rogier, Brussels 1, Belgium. Manufacturers of motor car bodies, Prcstcold refrigeration equipment and pressings of all kinds.