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Big New Recovery Unit at Grimsby

17th September 1965
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A'part of its 24-hour recovery service Si'. Motors Ltd. of Humber Bridge Road, Grimsby, has built a heavy recovery outfit and is now working on another. The first vehicle, seen here. is based on an AEC Militant chassis-cab and has a Turner 7-ton main winch operated by the 11.3-litre AEC main engine and a Turner 7-ton hoist powered by a BMC 3-4-litre diesel engine driving through a separate conventional gearbox.

S.P. Motors, which is part of the Ross Group, already runs a smaller breakdown vehicle and a mobile workshop and the telephone numbers for the emergency service

are Grimsby 57474 by day and Grimsby 4319 and 56420 by night. The second heavy recovery vehicle will be used at the Ross Group's MI service area due to open early next year at Leicester Forest East.

More Guys for Hong Kong: The China Motor Bus Co. Ltd., Hong Kong, has ordered 60 Guy Arab Mk. 'V bus chassis of which 30 will be 15 ft.-wheelbase singledeckers powered by Gardner 6LW engines, The remaining chassis will he 18 ft, 6 in.wheelbase double-deckers with 6LX engines. The metal section bodies will he assembled locally.