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PASSENGER
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rikA NEW challenger to the German Volkswagen Microbus will be shown by Whitson on Stand 27. An eight-seat bus, it will be powered by a Turner two-stroke oil engine with a Turner front-drive unit. A full description of this vehicle appeared in The Commercial Motor on September 3.
Other contenders in this field will be Spurting, with a 14-seat bus based on a Bedford 20-25-cwt. chassis (Stand 101), and Martin Walter, with their 12seat Utilabus. Two examples of this will be displayed on Stand 112; one on a Bedford 10-12-cwt. chassis, and the other on a Morris-Commercial 10-cwt. model.
A new version of the Dormobile is to be introduced at Earls Court by Martin Walter. To be known as the Dormobile Junior, it is based on a Morris 5-cwt. chassis, and combines the functions of a four-seat estate car, van or sleeper. An example of the " parent" model will also be on view.
Wadham's (Stand 49) will display a body based on the same principle as c51
the Dormobile. Known as the Carversion, this can be employed as a 12seat personnel carrier, a seven-seat estate car or a, two-berth sleeper. This vehicle is based on the MorrisCommercial 1-type van.
An improved version of the popular Super Vega 36-seat roach with Bedford chassis will be shown by Duple on Stand 67. Improvements include a new design of chromium-plated front grille, new front and rear bumpers, bolder exterior mouldings, heavier-gauge exterior panels, winking traffic indicators with self-cancelling switch, and a combined stop, winker, reflector and rearlight unit. The double-hinged Perspex ventilator panels in the roof remain as standard. .
The 38-seat Super Vega body on the Leyland Comet 90 chassis will be generally similar, but with a slight alteration in the design of the front grille. A front-entrance version of the composite framed lightweight Elizabethan coach body will be seen on an A.E.C. Reliance chassis. -This will have 43 seats in its 7-ft. 9-in.-wide body, a width which, it is claimed, is suitable for narrow roads.
Plaxtons are to introduce a number of new features in their three exhibits (Stand 29), all of which are of the Venturer Mark III design. The rear styling, incorporating double-curvature corner and back glasses, is new. The scats have been redesigned and now
include, soft neck rolls.. Moreov lifeguards are of a new type, ac, the luggage. locker has been ea fitting deeper and larger door Weathershields', Perspex yen' have been incorporated in the roc body on the Dennis underfloor-e chassis will have 30 individual sta seats.
New front and rear styling wi be seen on the new Harringtor tender Mark IV light-alloy cha coach (Stand 45). This latest v with seating for 41 passenger: incorporate the new Commer T. engine. The tubular parcel rad be hung from the inner roof a improve visibility through the sic quarter panels. The complete has an unladen weight of 5 tons Another exhibit on the Hari stand will be a 12-seat ligb chassisless crew car built for the Overseas Airways Corporation. 1 running units are employed. This is also offered as a 19-seat bus.
A lightweight version of the Li M.C.W. Olympic chassisless sing bus will be shown by Metror Caramel] and Weymanns on thei bined stands (41 and 42). Erni and Tiger Cub running units, it is ivn as the Olympian. A frontince 37-seat all-steel coach body on A.E.C. Reliance chassis will also een.
new front-end design will be incorted in the two M.C.W. Orion )1e-deckers, on view. One of these have 64 seats-29 in the lower m and 35 in the upper saloon. Both based on Leyland PD.220 chassis. le only major change in the Yeates' bits (Stand 119). is in the method of truction. Following the success of posite construction in their light
A models they are now employing and light alloy, in their Riviera three examples of which will be ew.
Ites, however, will be showing a built to conform with the ted new regulations onconstrueBased on a Bedford chassis, it will view in the demonstration park. is vehicle,, the emergency exit is at the rear on the off side to meet ,gulation governing the distance en the emergency and entrance ny operators will be given their pportunity of viewing Strachans' 'addition to their range, the 3t. Two examples of this light
aluminium-alloy 41-seat coach on A.E.C. Reliance and Maudslay 5, will be shown on Stand 28.
3 new models are to be introduced rlingham at the Show (Stand 36). eagull Mark IV lightweight coach, on a Crossley chassis. has 41 seats i front entrance door opening Is. There is space for about 200 of luggage. Weight of the body ,ns 7 cwt.
entinel forms the basis of the new I all-metal lightweight single-deck
bus specially designed for inter-city and.. rural operation. The front entrance is ene'osed by a Deans alloy jack-knifedoor.
Aluminium panelling on a light steel. frame, with hardwood inserts forms the Equator 47-seat bus on a Leyland Comet 90 chassis, built by Mann Egerton (stand 121) for service in tropical countries. Overseas operators will also find much of interest in the two buses to be shown on Stand 111 by Mulliners. Both. are provided with two doors on the near side.,
A deVelopMerit of the crush-loader which they exhibited at the 1952 Show will be on view on the stand (118) of Northern Counties. Built for Lancashire United Transport, Ltd., on an Atkinson lightweight chassis, it will accommodate 34 seated and 26 standing passengers.
The • crush-load single-decker built for Leeds by Roe (Stand 105) on an A.E.C. Reliance chassis will carry 58 passengers-34 seated and 24 standing. Front and rear full-depth partitions form the standing compartment opposite the entrance in the centre of the bus.
Sixty-five seats are provided in the Daimler-Northern Counties lightweight double-decker for Walsall Transport Department, the lower saloon of which will be framed in steel and the upper saloon in aluminium alloy.
Simple front-end treatment characterises the Royalist 41-seat coach body on a Maudslay Reliance chassis which will be shown by Park Royal on Stand 104. Another double-decker for Walsall will be exhibited on this stand. Based on an A.E.C. Regent Mark V chassis, it will be a 61-seat lightweight model with "new look" front-end treatment. Park Royal will also show a Guy Arab 57-seat single-deck bus-for Nigeria. . Many of the,features of the wellknown Kingsway coach produced by Windovers (Stand 117) will be incorporated in their latest offering, which takes the form of a 41-seat coach with an all-up weight of 91 tons. An A.E.C.Willowbrook_ Monocoach will be on view on Stand 87, together with a lightweight all-metal 41-seat coach based on the Leyland Tiger Cub chassis.
Following closely their well-proven design of previous years, Beadle (Stand 32) are again showing examples of their lightweight chassisless passenger vehicles. The power unit in both the coach and bus chassis on view will be the new Commer T.S.3 two-stroke oil engine,