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Shortbread gets Scottish cladding
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• Having experienced serious delays in obtaining inexpensive, longitudinally ribbed panelling from manufacturers and stockists, the Edinburgh-based municipal engineering and coachbuilding firm, John Gibson and Son Ltd., has set up its own section-forming equipment for producing 12in. cover width aluminium panelling with a deep by 1in. longitudinal rib. Lengths up to 40ft in 18 and 20 s.w.g. are made to order and are on sale to the trade.
Showing faith in its own product, John Gibson has used its new panelling for cladding a box van, as shown in the accompanying picture. This body is mounted on a 207in. wheelbase BLMC Mastiff, the unladen weight being 5 tons 14cwt. This provides a pay load capacity of 10 tons 6cwt, the capacity being 1,128 cu. ft. Overall dimensions of the vehicle are 29ft 3in. x 8ft x 11ft 6in. high. Internal body dimensions are 21ft ain. x 7ft high. Two half-opening rear doors provide loading access lift wide x 6f1 3in, high: both doors open through 270deg., being retained by clip fasteners to the sides of the body.
A aft x 4ft roller shutter door is fitted to the nearside front of the body. Framing is of hardwood timber sparred at 9in. centres and the floor is of 1;in. whitewood t. and g. timber: there are no wheel-arch boxes. A one-piece glassfibre roof completes the assembly.
This particular vehicle was supplied to Patersons, makers of the well-known Scottish shortbread.
The address of John Gibson and Son Ltd. is Bankhead Ave., Edinburgh.