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A Prominent Transport Company Enters the Industry with a Well-designed Body.
.TT WILL, probably, be of considerable I interest, and material assistance to the many vehicle manufacturers, whose activities at the present time are limited by the prevailing excess in chassis pro
Iduction over body production, to learn that the Birmingham and Midland Counties Transport Co., Ltd. (now incorporated in Allied Road Transports, Ltd.), Irs‘vie so extended their manufacturing facilities that thaw are prepared to undertake coach building for commercial Vehicles• to outside inquirers' specifications..
Although the name of this concern is usitally 'associated with transport work, it should be understood that, during the greater part of their existence, they have been fii the habit of building their own bodies, and of undertaking their own engineering overhauls and repairs. It will be appreciated, therefore, that. their • staff includes, in addition to the experts required to carry on the business of road haulage, competent coach de:igners and . builders, and the motor coach illustrated evidences the high-class of work which can be produced by this concern.
This particular body has recently been completed to their own design, and wee manufactured throughont at their depot at Stewart Street, Birmingham, and is fitted to a reconstracted J type W.D. Thornyeroft chassis fartheir own use. Several of these vehieles are in comMission by Allied Road Transports, Ltd., at their London, Liverpool, Manchester. and Birmingham depots, and are giving
excellent satisfaction for works' outings," week end tours, football matches, and similar occasions. Each of the six tiers accommodates five passengers, that is to say, in addition to•the driver and his mate, 28 paying passengers can be carried.
It is, perhaps, needless to urge that Allied Road Transports,•Ltd., have, perhaps, as great a knowledge as any other concern of the very rough usage which heavy vehicles are put to, and that all their productions, in consequence, are substantially manufactured and designed so as to withstand such usage. It will be noticed that the particular coach illustrate-a has doors only on the nearside, but this, of course, although cheapening production, is a detail which can be varied to suit the particular owner's -requirements. The designers' point, apart from that ofcost, is that, by only permitting passengers to be taken up on the near-side or front the pavement, the possibility of accidents to careless passengers alighting from the off-side and in front of other traffic will be eliminated.
As regards constructional details, such points as upholstery, etc., have been carried out in good quality materials and by skilled trimmers. Rug rails and ash trays are fitted on the rear of each tier, and a Pyretic) fire extinguisher is carried under the scuttle dash. Two running boards are fitted on either side, those on the off-side accommodating a capacious tool box and a rack for six tins of extra petrol. The ends of the running boards are both braced and improved in appearance by the addition of an arched tailboard under the rear tier of seats,
Allied Road Transports, Ltd.,' are in a favourable position as regards materials, and carry a heavy and varied stockof well-seasoned • timber. In addition to the room required for their own bodywork, they have sufficient accommodation to lay down six or eight of these vehicles at a time, and transport owners or coin-. mercial vehicle manufacturers who require bodies might go further and fare worse than by passing their inquiries to Stewart Street.