Plenty to catch the eye at Hanover Fair
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Bill Godwin reports on some unusual technological developments on show in Germany
MAJOR PARTICIPATION by Daimler-Benz, lveco, MAN and VW in the road transport section of the Hanover Fair which closed on Wednesday, April 8, was complemented by many specialist manufacturers and bodybuilders presenting an unusual variety of vehicle equipment for the broad spectrum of goods and passenger transport.
Daimler-Benz staged a comprehensive show of vehicles for site and construction use as well as the municipal sector, with models ranging from the USbuilt Euclid R35 dump truck through 1928 AK tipper chassis to 307-based street tidies. But the main attraction centred on Top left: this Borco-Hbns mobile shop of light alloy construction is fitted with a special refrigeration system. Able to carry up to 1,650kg of fresh food, the unit, for a gvw of 4,750kg, is based on a VW LT45 chassis. its 24m long double-artic bu prototype, designed for auto bahn operation, which starts . test programme on the extendei Rastatt track within a few weeks The vehicle marks the begin ning of the second phase of th 0-Bahn development which, Hanover, was graphically illuE trated by an elaborate mock showing the use of dual-mod buses (for road and guidewa use) and of the longer vehicle and "trains" suitable fo guideway operation only.
For the forthcoming test prc gramme, the three-section arti has been equipped with tw 250kW electric traction motoT to evaluate performance E speeds at up to 100km/h.
On two large stands in th open air section of the hug fairgrounds, VW demonstrate the growing versatility of th Transporter programme and the LT range. The latter has bee extended by the addition three-axle models for increase payloads and the availability of front-wheel-drive traction hea allowing low-frame heights fr special requirements.
Much interest was displaye in the first public presentation the new Magirus-Deutz 130 M FGB 9.4 tonnes gvw delivei truck with a "hush pack" powl unit to reduce noise level to dB(A). This vehicle, based on e perimental work carried out ini• ally for the German Post Offir (which by mid-summer 1981w have 30 such vehicles), m shown with a low-height miner water delivery body.
High expectations by the Ge man motor industry an operators that eight-wheele with a realistic gvw may b come legal by the beginning next year, were underlined several Show exhibits includir those on the MAN and Meill
ands. Terberg of Holland lowed another (Volvo-en led) eight-wheeler with NCH id-loading equipment while a naf 84, also from Holland, -med the basis of a drilling it for oilfield work.
Kaelble, one of the old-estabhed specialist suppliers of levy haulage equipment, owed a newly developed 66 .the German Federal railways, iile the German Post Office tged a special display of over vehicles to demonstrate the de variety of transport equip
)nt now used in the postal and ecommunications sector.