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British Vehicles on Show in New York
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THE motor industry is well represented at the comprehensive British Exhibition which opens today at the Coliseum. New York, and closes on June 26. Whilst the majority of the industry's display will be devoted to private cars, an impressive number of commercial vehicles is also shown.
Leyland Motors, Ltd., through their recently established U.S. subsidiary, Leyland Motors (U.S.A.), Ltd., are showing Albion Chieftain and Clydesdale chassis, which in the U.S.A. are sold under the Leyland name and carry the parent company's name plate. Both vehicles appear in chassis and cab form. Two Chieftain chassis with Gindy . aluminium bodies are already operating in New York.
Following their success in Canada, Smith's Delivery Vehicles, Ltd., have just entered the U.S. market by setting up Smith's Electric Vehicle Sales, Runnemede, New Jersey. Their main exhibit will be the Commuter 25-cwt. battery-electric delivery vehicle which can travel at up to 25 m.p.h. over ranges of about 50 miles. Smith's show also their Routevendor mobile grocery shop based on the Commer forwardcontrol 1-ton chassis.•
Other Commer i-tonners are displayed by the Rootes Group. Versions of the chassis exhibited include a van, pick-up, 12-seat coach and four-berth caravan. Also to be seen is the multi-fuel version of the Commer T83 engine.
A Morris +-ton van in G.P.O. livery and the Austin metropolitan taxi are featured by the British Motor Corporation in addition to an A152 15-cwt. van and an Austin Gipsy Mark II.
Van and pick-up versions of their Atlas 10-12-cwt. chassis are displayed by Standard-Triumph Sales, Ltd., whilst the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., show the Thames 5-cwt, van and estate car and van versions of the Thames 15-cwt. chassis. Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., are not competing with the other British manufacturers in the sale of small commercial vehicles in the U.S.A. Their display is confined to private cars.
There is undoubtedly a largely • untapped market for small forwardcontrol vans in the U.S.A. and the exhibits described above indicate that British manufacturers are aware of this. • Other than specialized and, therefore, relatively expensive designs, there are no American-built vehicles which can compete on load space and economy with the British models shown.
British-built tractors exhibited by the Ford tractor division are fitted with American-produced Ford implements, but equipment on tractors displayed by Massey-Ferguson (United Kingdom), Ltd., is of British origin.
The latter concern show a 25-year-old tractor which was one of the first to be fitted with a hydraulic system and was the forerunner of the current MasseyFerguson designs on view.
Component suppliers, as well as vehicle manufacturers, are included in the exhibition. On show for the first time by Perkins Engines, Ltd., is the P4/203 car engine, which is a development of the established P4 and produces 62 b.h.p. at 3,000 r.p.rn.
The 1.6-litre Perkins Four 99 oil engine has already found a• substantial application in the U.S.A. as a power unit for self-contained mobile refrigeration plant. An industrial version of this engine producing up to 42.3 b.h.p. at 3,600 r.p.m. and .a marine Four 99 are displayed. The British branch of the Cummins Engine Co., Ltd., exhibit four of their British-manufactured engines. sOne of these is the six-cylindered NH-250-B, which is making its debut.
. Other exhibitors in the commercialvehicle industry include Amal, Ltd., Smith's Motor Accessory Division, who show their automatic transmission system, Joseph Lucas, Ltd., C.A.V., Ltd., Girling, Ltd., Hallam, Sleigh and Cheston, Ltd., Lep Transport, Ltd., and the Rover Co., Ltd.