Mobile Showroom for B.I.C.C.
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TO keep customers throughout the country familiar with their products and latest developments, British Insulated Callender's Cables, Ltd., have brought into service a demonstration caravan which will tour the country with a comprehensive exhibition showing in great detail the use of plastics compounds in the manufacture of all types of electric cable.
There are displays showing the corn n16 position of the plastics materials used for insulating and sheathing electric wires and cables, whilst other sections illustrate a large number of products in which plastics are used.
The display will tour England, Scotland and Wales, travelling approximately 4,200 miles. The caravan has been manufactured by Berkeley Coachwork, Ltd.. Biggleswade, and has a 45-cwt, chassis. It is decorated with the company's colours, cream and maroon, with trimmings in aluminium. Overall dimensions are: height 10 ft., length 26 ft. and width 7 ft. 6 in With a canopy and platform which are extended when the caravan is exhibiting, the width becomes 13 ft. Lighting is by fluorescent tubes and a power plug entry is provided for supplies of 230-250 volts. The caravan is drawn by a Thames 2-tonner.