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• One of three mobile infor nation and recruiting centres built for the Ni tonal Coal Board by L. F. Dove and Co. L :d. of Croydon has recently made the jo irney from Surrey to Scotland where it IA ill promote the use of coal and act as an t mployment office. A few months ago a sin iilar vehicle was completed and was dispat thed to the Newcastle area.
The body is mounted on a 13( dford twinsteer coach chassis with star clard longwheelbase. A five-kilowatt generator mounted on an hydraulic lift, provides the power for both the lighting al xi working models, as well as floodlights which illuminate the vehicle at night.
Two and a half months saw :he completion of the body-building fa this, the second of the commissioned vehi :les, and the third is already under way,