• ERF has sold its first three drop frame 16-tonne
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distribution trucks to Carlsberg. The new vehicles, which will be delivered in early 1987, have 5.8 metre wheelbases and Boalloy curtainsided bodies, allowing Carlsberg to carry mixed loads of kegs, cartons and cases. They will be fitted with low profile tyres, and full sleeper cabs.
• If you have ever wanted to carry six tonnes up a 60% (1:1.67) gradient, or through a force six sea, then the machine to do it has arrived.
Aquatrack comes from Cornwall-based engineers W Visick and Sons, and is a more powerful version of an amphibian the company was commissioned to build for passenger transport to offshore islands.
With a gross weight of 12 tonnes, a top speed of 501cm/h 16lorilh in the water the Aquatrack is fitted with a 167kW (225hp) CAT vee-eight diesel engine, with either a manual or an automatic gearbox driving through the two pump jets, or a military derived track system.
Apart from the obvious military uses of the vehicle, the company has had enquiries from land and sea-based surveyors, pollution control specialists, film, and inshore rescue companies, and even a cruise liner company which hopes to mount Aquatrack on davits, and use it for tourist excursions.