Whiting. Lsrry. Light . Van,
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Chassis
STAND No,. 80. '
British agents: whiting, Ltd., 334-140, EuSten Road, London, N.W. 1.
AMOST comprehensive display of aehieles is shown on the &tame]: occupied by Jana well-known company. It consists of a 2 ton Clydesdale fitted with a driver's seat, but. no body; a 1,L. ton Whiting Mark 1," fitted with a low-sided lorry body with detachable sides, hasoci. and. windscreen; a la ton Fecheral chassis, with driver's seat) only a 2 ton Federal chassis; a 3A-4 gon Federal chaasis with low-sided lorry body, .cab, and meg windscreen; anda 17.1 h.p. Hupmobile on pneumatic tyres. anal carrying a 12-15 cwt box van body, with canopy over the driver and double. windscreen. At the time of writing an 8-10 h,p. Zelare witha 5-6 cwt.; box van. body, was exPe:oted, but had net arrived.
Of the lorries; the 3a to 4 ton Federal is the only one provided with pneumatic tyres, which are of Goodyear make, 38 ins. by 7 ina. at the front and 44 ins.
by 10 ins, at the -rear. For inflating
these a two-cylindered Kellogg 'air pump is driven from the gearbox. .
As all the Federal chassis are very sianilar in their design, it will suffice if we describe the 2 tanner. This has a iour-cylindered power unit, with the cylinders cast en, bloe and all the valves at the nearside.
'A drymultiple-clase clutch conveys the drive through a shaft provided with two fork-ambpin type universal joints to faut-speed-and-reverse gearbox, slung . ainidehips from two channel steel cross , members.' Four-point suspension is ea).ployed for this -unit, but the suspension at the front is by two bolts provided wit-h compression Tangs, so that stresses are not imposed on the gearbox casing through. frame torsion. The final drive as through a corciam shaft provided with universal joints of the fork-and-pin type to an overhead worm-driven rear Axle.
The Clydesdale is also an overhead worm-driven machine anal in this case the gearbox farms a 'unit with the engine. -Unit conitruttion of gearbox and engine is ales employed on the Whitina. Mark 1, butaa this case the final di-tapas through : a double axle