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Motor Coach. Chassis.
Box Van. Tilt Van.
STAND No. 55.
11311E STAND occupied by this well' known Luton company is proving a centre of attraction to numbers of visitors, who are particularly interested in the two latest productions of the company, i.e., the 2G type chassis, which is intended ler the conveyance of goods, and has a capacity of two tons, and the 25-30 cwt. Express type chassis. In many respects these two chassis are similar to the 3P type, which is a passenger chaseis with a capacity of. 30 passengers. The other vehicles on this stand comprise a standard 3i ton B.C. type chassis with close-boarded tilt van body, and a 3P chassis withspecial 19-seater char-abanes body, n,which there are five rows of seats in pairs, the central row being provided with a gangway, because of the absence of doors over the wheel arches. This bedy is finished in yellow with trimming in black leather.
The 3P chassis, being the first of the new models produced by the company, clese,rveS considerable attention, particularly as it is intended for char-abanes work, which is a branch of the trade which is very popular at the present time. It has a four-cylindered engine with a bore and stroke of 115 mm. and 140 rem. respectively, with the cylinders cast in pairs, supported at the front by a stout, malleable iron bracket; bolted to the timing gearcase, and held in a split socket formed in a malleable
iron cross-member. At the 'rear it carries a cross-member, which:: .5 permanently bolted to the crankcase. The crankcase, following. Gommer Car practice, is a one-piece casting.
A leather-covered clutch of the external cone type, takes the drive through a splined clutch shaft provided with a laminated steel flexible joint to a cornpact four-speed-and-reverse gearbox, which is suspended from an arched cro-smember at the front, and from a tubular cross-member at the rear.
Behind the gearbox is carried a footbrake drum of ample proportions, on which contract cast-iron brake' .shoes operated by a crossbar with double involute cams. The propeller shaft is enclosed in a tubular radius and torque member, which is bolted to the worm casing at. one end and supported at its
forward end in a spherical 'musing; the drive from the gearbox to this propeller shaft is through a -short shaft with a combined sliding and cardan joint consisting of a rounded tooth pinion meshing with an internally toothed ring at its front end, the shaft being splined and free to slide in the pinion. The final drive is by an overhead worm mounted in the lid of the axle casing, so that it can he removed quickly for examination and repair.
The 2G and Express modals differ mainly in their general design as regards the combined radius and torque. member only, which is retained on the 2G type, whilst Hotchkiss drive is employed on the .Express.
The heaviest model ehoe-n, which is the B.C. type, embodies a special type of four-speed gearbox and a. rubber cushion drive to a counterehaft, fiem which the 'final drive is by chains enclosed in cast aluminium. chain cases, • which arc to`ally dirt-proof and oil -retaining.