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VEHICLES AT THE TRAMWAYS CONFERENCE.

11th September 1928
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Details of Some Interesting Buses and Coaches to be Shown at Manchester To-morrow.

("NNE of the most important gather ings in the world of local government is the annual conference of the Municipal Tramways and Transport Association, which is being held this year at Manchester from to-morrow (Wednesday) until the 14th instant.

Quite a number of interesting vehicles will be displayed during this period. these being chiefly passenger modeLs, and details of their particular exhibits have been sent in to us by several wellknown makers.

The Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., Windmill Lane, Southall, Middlesex, will have two vehicles in attendance, a Model 426 rear-entrance, single-deck bus to seat 32 persons, and a Model 426 single-deck bus of the double-entrance pattern.

The former has comfortable chair seats mounted on spring-steel legs, and an entrance door of the sliding type operating in a Beclawat roller track. Ample ventilation' is afforded by a series of louvre slots in the contrail panels over the side windows and a sliding hit-and-miss ventilator in the bulkhead.

Lighting is by nine lamps with improved opalescent bulbs, and warning to the -driver is given by a Nurna air bell.

The body of this vehicle has been built by Craven's Railway Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd., of Sheffield.

The double-entrance bits also accommodates 32 passengers, but, in this ease, they have special. Rorailly Chairs mounted on steel pedestals and with spring backs. The front-entrancedoor is operated by the driver, whilst that at the rear is of the sliding pattern. The eight main windows are equipped with Quicktho operating gear. Ventilation is provided by four N.L. roof fittings and there is a glass louvre venti

later over each main window, lighting, in this case, being by eight well-type This body is a product of United Automobile Services, Ltd., of Lowestoft, and the approximate weight of the complete bus is 4 tons 8 cwt.

. Both the 'vehicles which will be demonstrated by the Albion Motor Car Co., Ltd., Scotstoun,' Glasgow, will he mounted on the company's well-known and successful 30-60 h.p. 32-passenger chassis, which has formed the basis of buses supplied to the Corporations of Glasgow, Cardiff, Grimsby, Londonderry, Kilmarnock, etc.

This chassis embodies a special design of frame which permits the use of an exceptionally low rear entrance having a single stop.

One 'of the two vehicles has a rearentrance body and is part of a repeat order for the Londouderry Corporation. The interior is finished in natural wood, stained and. varnished, with highly polished black facings and white-enamelled roof, the upholstery being in brown antique leather. A luggage rail .(1 ft. long is fitted to the roof of the bus at the rear, access to this being afforded by a ladder at the back of the body. Ventilation is ensttred by Muirhead devices on the roof and bit-and-miss fittings at the front end.

The second machine is a front-entrance pattern with an emergency door at the rear. The front door folds in two and is extended to the bottom of the step, so that the steps are included when the door is shot. The accommodation it particularly comfortable, the semi-bucket seats having spring backs. As regards ventilation, the roof is double along both sides of the bus, the opening between. the two portions being protected by zinc gauze, the outside of the space communicating directly with louvres fitted immediately under the

cantrail at each side. This body is a special product of Charles H. Roe (1923), Ltd., of Leeds. We illustrate this vehicle in our news pages.

A 30-70 h.p. 32-seater Eagle-type bus specially designed for municipal requirements will be demonstrated by Crossley Motors, Ltd., of Gorton, Manchester. It will be remembered that this chassis was described recently in T lie Commercial Motor.

The four-wheel brakes are operated through a Dewandre servo,, the hand brake being connected to a second set of shoes within the double-width drums on the near wheels only.

One of the vehicles which will be demonstrated by Dennis Bros., Ltd., of Guildford, will be an fl-type bus cit Pneumatic tyres and with a covered-telt, double-deck body. The engine is capable of developing 70 b.h.p., and the braking system embraces all four wheels, the application-being through a servo device.

The second bus on view will be the E-type, in which increased body space it provided by seating the driver beside the engine. We illustrate this vehicle, which provides accommodation for 32 passengers. Except for the driver's position, the chassis is similar to that of the F-type parlour coach which will also be exhibited.

This coach has, a most sumptuously

finished body, the passengers being accommodated in fauteuils which have pneumatic upholstery covered in chrome leather. Folding tables are embodied in the seat backs. There are nets for carrying light packages and neat curtains at the sides of each window. The brakes on this vehicle are also servooperated and act on all four wheels.

One of the Guy passenger vehicles which will take part in the demonstration is a saloon type of bus which the company is terming the committee saloon, and which is intended, as its name implies, for conveying corporation Committees.

It is a 12-14-seater, the seats being

of the swivelling arm-chair pattern, except for a settee behind the driver's seat which accommodates fonr persons. There are two doors to the driver's cab, but the entrance for the passengers is by a rear central door with a doublefolding step. The interior finish is in mahogany, and there is a central table with two hinged side leaves. Excellent headroom is provided by a roof of -the clerestory type with swivelling v-entilators.

The second vehicle will be a 32-seater

bus with front entrance and a rear emergency door operable from three different positions. The chassis is of the forward-control type with fourwheel brakes and a six-cylindered engine. Three of the passengers are accommodated at the hack of the driver's position and face to the rear ; there are two longitudinal seats. over the wheelarches, one on the eff side being for three persons and that on the near side for four.


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