New Rental Scheme for Heavy Vehicles

21st September 1956, Page 94

21st September 1956

Page 94

Page 94, 21st September 1956 — New Rental Scheme for Heavy Vehicles

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Keywords : Leyland Motors, Albion Motors, Truck, Business / Finance

A NEW scheme for renting heavy

goods and passenger vehicles is announced today by Mr. G. D. Shellabear. Hanover Court, Hanover Street, London, W.1. Industrial Rentals, Ltd., have appointed him sole agent for the operation of this scheme.

Under it, an operator can take delivery of a new vehicle for a relatively low immediate payment. Should he wish to determine the hiring, the owners sell the vehicle and any amount received in excess of a predetermined percentage of the original cost is returned to the operator as rebate of rent.

235 REGALS FOR AUSTRALIA CURRENTLY passing through A.C.V. group factories, or en route to operators throughout Australia, are 235 Regal Mark IV vehicles with Monocontrol transmission. Sydney's fleet of 500 A.C.V. is to be augmented by 125 Regals, whilst 25 will be delivered to Melbourne.

In Hobart a further 12 Regals will he operated, and in Adelaide, 70. Brisbane has ordered 22 'and Messrs. Flower, Davies and Johnson. A.C.V. agents in Western Australia, one for supply to Perth,

11 B.R.S. VEHICLES AT SHOW El LEVEN vehicles' of British Road Services are on display at the Commercial Motor Show. They are on the Albion, Austin, Leyland, Cranes, Scammell, Taskers, Willowbrook, and Walkers and County Cars stands, and in the demonstration park.

MICROGRAMS.

T.R.T.A. Dinner: The annual dinnerdance of the Traders' Road Transport Association will be held at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London, W.1, on November 5.

New Agreement: A new running agreement between the East Kent Road Car Co.. Ltd.. and Dover Corporation will become operative in March, 1958, when the 21-year term of the present agreement ends.

2 cwt. Saved: The weights of the new Beadle Canterbury coach and Thanet bus. announced in The Commercial Motor last week, have proved to be 2 cwt. lower than expected. The Canterbury weighs 4 tons 6 cwt. and the Thanet 4 tons 2 cwt.

Pneumatic Governing: A pneumatic. governor for fuel-injection pumps has been developed by Bryce Berger, Ltd., Staines, Middlesex. An example is on show at Earls Court (Stand 422). as applied to an A-size camshaft pump for a sixeyiindered oil engine.

Future of K.P. Engine: Confidence in the future of the free-piston engine was expressed by Mr. Lawrence Robson, chairman of Associated British Engineering, Ltd.. and of Henry Meadows. Ltd., this week, before setting out on a 30,000-mile world market-survey tour, Tanker Recovered: The petrol tanker which was swept off the Aust ferry pier by the tide (The Commercial Motor, September 14) was eventually reclaimed by the breakdown service of the Victoria Motor Co. (Bristol), Ltd.. employing a Mack 16-ton recovery vehicle. The tanker was a Bedford of the Fuse Petroleum Co.. Ltd.

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