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Gold Medal for Hope Safety Device
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THE Hope anti-jack-knife device for artics was awarded a gold medal— top award in the vehicle safety class— at the 14th annual international inventors' exhibition in Brussels last week. Mr. F. J. Hope told The Commercial Motor on Monday that great interest had been shown in the device by Continental concerns, and in particular by Goodyear Luxembourg who had arranged for a Goodyear test engineer from Germany to examine the device and discuss its applications with Mr. Hope.
Goodyear in Germany run a fleet of test vehicles, among them artics which are said to be not entirely free from jackknifing problems, even though they are fitted with load-sensitive valves to keep braking below the wheel-locking point. Mr. Hope was told that the functioning of the sensing valves could be affected, for example, by a change from twin tyres to low-profile singles because the tyre flexion altered, and changing an old road spring for a new one could also affect the way in which the valves acted.
If an anti-jack-knife device is fitted for trial with the German Goodyear fleet, as planned, it is thought that it will first have to be type-approved by the W. German Ministry of Transport.
Meanwhile, Shell is reported to be putting the device into trial service in Germany, Sweden and the UK, and over 100 sets are already in use with British operators. James Hemphill Ltd. and Tyburn Road Tank Services Ltd. are unong the sizeable hauliers who have ,ecendy placed orders for more Hope devices, the latter company purchasing to fewer than 30 to add to those which t has been trying in service for some months.
faskers Expand: Taskers of Andover (1932) _.td. has acquired a new 14-acre factory site it Skelmersdale, Lanes, situated at Glebe (cad. Gillibrands Industrial Estate (tel.: lawd Vale 3468; telex: 627/156). The new vorks replaces the Manchester sales office, vhich closed, on Monday, and will be nanaged by Mr. H. C. Carleton, formerly nanager of the Manchester office.
..eyland in Germany : The Leyland Motor i7orporation has formed a trading subsidiary, )eutsche Leyland GmbH, at Aschaffenburg, Vest Germany.