ONE-TON RODA FOR FAR EAST
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A ONE-TON capacity commercial vehicle has been introduced by Rada Industries (UK) Limited of Oldbury, Warley, West Midlands, designed primarily for export to Indonesia in component form. Two of six prototypes have so far been built in Britain, but production models will be made in Indonesia using local labour with mechanical components from Britain.
A simple steel cab design is used to avoid the need for expensive presses, and thE structure is made from sheet steel sections which can bt produced locally without diffi. culty.
There is a strong resistancE to grp bodied vehicles in thE Far East and so this material not used.
Although the vehicle outwardly simple in appear ance it is quite sophisticate( mechanically.
A 1725cc (105cuin) Chrys ler petrol engine drives thi rear wheels via a Salisbur3 rear axle unit.
A Perkins diesel engine wil later be offered as an option McPherson strut suspensior with disc brakes are used a the front.
The design and develop ment work on the vehicle wa at the request of Sultan Ha mengku Buwono lx, and th production vehicles will b, manufactured at a Yogyakar ta plant.