New Electrics for Light Loads
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IN about two months' time A. E. Morrison and Sons, Ltd., Gartree Street, Leieester, expects to be making deliveries of its new electric vehicles, For sonic time past the company has been undertaking tests of its new machine, and it has now passed these satisfactorily. The company has purchased a new factory, in which its latest products are to be erected pn the moving-platform system, and details are well advanced except the final fitting out of the factory.
At the outset two machines will be built, one of 6-cwt, capacity and the other for 10-cwt. loads, although a 1-tonner will be manufactured at a later date; the last named is now under test. Each machine will, we are told, have a range of 60-80 miles per charge, and
all of them are four-wheelers. The 1124 question of producing a three-wheeled machine for 6-cwt. loads was given consideration, but as the saving of tax is small it was deemed more practicable to employ four wheels. for the lightest product.
The machines will be supplied complete with a rectifier charger, and an automatic ampere-hour meter, the meter showing how much current is left in the battery, and automatically switching off the charger when the battery has received a 10-15 per cent, over-charge, so that no technical knowledge is required.
We understand that the prices for the new machines will be approximately £90 for the 6-cwt. product and £130 for the 10-cwt. machine. Full-elliptic springs will be used at the rear on all models, but whilst the 1-tonner will have elliptic springs at the front, the 6-cwt.
• and 10-cwt. products will incorporate a special system of springing. In the case of each vehicle, the driver has only one step into the machine, there being no footboard, and the driver is carried forward of the chassis.
In connection with its generatingplant business and its talking-pictureequipment interests, the company employs 28 service engineers with cars, covering every district throughout the country. It intends to use this staff, with _additions, to give complete maintenance service for any period up to 10 years, including battery renewals and overhauls and examinations for £15 per annum.
The company informs us that it already has a number of orders booked and that it is making arrangements for an output of 30 vehicles per week.