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FIVE mobile workshops valued at over million are being supplied to Saudi Arabia by the UAC Motor Division of UAC International.
The complexes, destined for the Saudi Arabian Dallah Establishment, each consist of a 12.2m (40ft) workshop semi-trailer coupled to a Mercedes 1926 tractive unit, a stores recovery unit built on a Mercedes 1926 fourwheel-drive chassis, and a small lubrication trailer.
The mobile workshops, which have their own 15kva generators, are totally selfcontained and carry fuel and water as well as manufacturing their own distilled water.
Built by Robert B. Massey at Market Weighton in Yorkshire, the workshop bodies are insulated and constructed from one-piece sandwich panels of plastics-faced plywood enclosing a polyurethane core.
A solar shield, developed from Massey Coldshields technique with refrigerated bodies, is incorporated into the roofs to help withstand extremes of temperature.
On the right-hand side of each workshop two doors are