A Useful Salvage Outfit.
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The Kingston Hill Motor Engineering; Works, Kingston Hill, Surrey, are using the interesting breakdown vehicle which is illustrated on this page. It consists of a 30 ha). 6-cylinder Daimler chassis which has been reinforced at certain points and fitted with extra springs for its unusual class of work. The vehicle is equipped with selfstarter and dual ignition so that it can get on to the road quickly, and is fitted with a disappearing glass screen behind the driver, which, when lowered, facilitates salvage operations.
In addition to the crane, which has been fitted with extra stays coming well forward to the front of the frame so as to distribute the stresses, the vehicle carries a portable oxy-acetylene welding plant,. a Pyrene fire-extinguisher, a Red Cross outfit, trenching tools for digging cars out when bogged, also a towing bar and a stretcher. The salvage equipment which is used on the vehicle is the product of Harvey Frost and Co. (1924), Ltd., 148-150, Great Portland Street, London, W.1.
Constructing 4,000 Miles of Road.
The Spanish Council of Ministers has consented to the construction of 4,000 miles of new roads in different parts of Spain, at an estimated cost of 530 million pesetas. Although it is stipulated that as much native material as possible is to be employed for the work, no restrictions are to be placed upon the purchase abroad of machinery and equipment necessary for carrying out the operations.
A Hawker's Lorry.
Although the Dennis 30-cwt. model has only been on the market for a comparatively short time, it has been supplied for a variety of uses and many are the types of body which have been fitted to the chassis. One of the most interesting deliveries of this size of vehicle which has recently been made from the company's works at Guildford is shown in the accompanying illustration. The body was built to meet the requirements of Mr. T. Horton, of Lutterworth, and is probably one of the few machines in existence bearing the Words ." Licensed Hawker "on the body sides. The driver's cab, which is completely enclosed, gives excellent protection in the winter months, whilst in the summer the quarter-fold windscreen may be opened, and a panel of glass which forms one-half of each side forward win dew may be slid over the other half. The body provides, a large platform space, its dimensions being 8 ft. 3 ins. long by 5 ft. 6 ins, wide, and access to the interior is obtained by way of two large sliding doors at each side and an inverted tailboard which encloses practically the whole of the rear and which, when opened, is supported by suitable wooden struts.
Manchester's Tyre Contracts. , The tramways committee of the Manchester Corporation has made contracts for the supply of motorbus tyres for the year with Henley's Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., the Dunlop Rubber"Co„ Ltd., and C. Macintosh and Co., Ltd.