£2.8m. Orders for Army Bedfords
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BEDFORD chassis to the value of over £2.8m. will be supplied to the Army during the next 12 months as a result of contracts recently placed by the Ministry of Supply with Vauxhall Motors, Ltd. All the vehicles will be four-wheel-drive general-service models. A number of specialist companies will provide the bodies to Ministry specification.
When these present contracts are completed, Bedford vehicles to the value of over £10m. will have been delivered to the Army and the R.A.F. since 1952.
HUMOUR IN THE A.A 'THE history of the organization that
I has done so much to improve conditions for vehicle owners since the days of " fur-clad murderers "—the Automobile Association — has been published under the title, " Golden Milestone."
Attractively produced and profusely illustrated, the book is a symposium of chapters by different well-known writers on various aspects of the Association's record and activities. Far from being a prosaic chronicle, "Golden Milestone" is • extremely interesting and amusing, mainly because the A.A. can take a joke against itself. Them is, for example, a David Langdon cartoon showing an A.A. patrolman, wheelbrace in hand, who has gone to the rescue of a motorist with a fiat tyre.
"Before I start," the patrolman is saying to the motorist, "are you one of these chaps who kick up hell at our annual general meetings ? "
The book is published at 15s. by the A.A. at Fanum House, London, W.1, and marks the Association's 50th anniversary.
SEVEN MILES IN 24 HOURS ON I0,000-MILE TRIP
WITH his wife, two children and 12 VY other passengers, Mr. A. J. Keats has arrived in this country after a 10,000-mile journey from Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, in a home-built caravan mounted on an Albion Claymore chassis.
With an all-up weight of 61 tons, the Claymore averaged just over 14 m.p.g. This excellent figure was returned despite appalling conditions, which, on one occasion, reduced the mileage for 24 hours to seven. The average daily mileage for the whole trip worked out at about 130.
No punctures were experienced in the India tyres and the Claymore gave no trouble from start to finish, Mr. Keats told The Commercial Motor.
He leaves on May 18 for the return trip. The journey to this country took 73 days.