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• Cleveland County Fire Brigade has recently invested £210,000 in what it believes is the British fire service's only 6x4 P92M Scania-based appliance to be fitted with the latest Simon Snorkel hydraulic platform.
Simon's latest SS-263 platform design is supported on an H-jacking system, has a 27.74m (91ft) maximum working height with a 15.2m (50ft) horizontal outreach limit. Leyland Daf recommends a fifth wheel position between 0.50 and 1.02m ahead of the drive axle. The twin-steer and tag-axle tractors have the ATi driveline of the Daf-built 11.6-litre charge-cooled engine and the ZF 16S-160 directdrive 16-speed gearbox coupled to a Daf 1346 single reduction hypoid axle.
With a 3.31:1 final drive, FTG models have a theoretical 1161unih maximum speed at 2,000rpm and a 23% (1-in-4.4) gradeability.
Prices for day-cabbed twinsteer models range from £45,030 for the 95-310, to 249,555 for the higherpowered 95-380 version. A standard sleeper or top sleeper option costs an extra 21,300, and the Space cab £4,680.
The FTS 95-380 lifting tagaxle tractive unit has the day cab as standard, 479 but no top sleeper option. This 6x 2 unit, on a 3.0m wheelbase, uses the same An driveline and 44tonne design limit as the FTG models. Axle ratings are seven tonnes on the front and 18.30 tonnes across the rear bogie, with a 24.39-tonne GVW-plated maximum. In its standard day cab form, the FTS 95-380 retails at £47,760.
The FT[' double-drive 6x4 heavy haulage unit has the standard Daf 10-tonne hubreduction rear axle with a 7.5tonne limit on the front axle and a 27.5-tonne GVW and 52tonne GCW design limit. Sleeper-cabbed as standard, it will retail at £55,725, but the Space cab option will cost 23,380 more. Leyland Daf s new 95 Series is going to twin-steer and tag axles with a choice of four cabs. Prices start around .£45.000 up to around £56,000 for a doubledrive 6x4 heavy haulage unit, sleeper-cabbed as standard. The layout behind the cab is uncluttered, below.
Leyland Daf has yet to confirm the unladen weights of these new tractive units but in bare chassis-cab form they are expected to range between 6,800 and 7,200kg, with the day-cabbed twin-steer model likely to be just this side of seven tonnes not including its fifth wheel.
Leyland Daf's Special Vehicle centre at Colchester, which handles all Daf-built machines, is currently turning out 30 trucks per day.