Laycock-Goodchild : Stand 39.
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As we have already announced in this journal, F. B. Goodchild and Co., Ltd., has arranged with the Laycock Engineering Co., Ltd., of Sheffield, for the manufacture. of a comprehensive range of industrial vehicles of entirely British design and manufacture. These range in capacity from 10 cwt. to five tons; mid it was hoped to have completed examples of the two 10-cwt. and the three-ton machines for the Show, but this hope, unfortunately, has not been fulfilled. There is staged a partly-finished 10-cwt. van, which is sufficiently far advanced to demonstrate its many unusual features of construction. It has a girder frame with double transverse springs, on above and one below the centres of the road wheels, its water-cooled engine is to be provided with a self-starter, and its gearbox will be fitted for four spends and a reverse, arid it will have all-gear drive to the back wheels. Another 10-cwt. model, of more orthodox type of design, is also shown, with an unfinished natural wood body and the chassis in shop grey. This has a four cylinder monobloc engine, a three-speed-and-reverse gearbo x, and bevel-drive live axle. Another model, also unfortunately not quite complete, is a three-ton brewer's wagon with four-cylinder 35 h.p. Drayson engine, driving through an inverted cone clutch, and a fourspeed-and-reverse gearbox to a. worm-driven back axle. A couple of complete Drayson engines on separate stands, and a number of component parts, including a worm and worm wheel such as will be used in the three-tonner, are also displayed. We hope in the near future to be able to give a complete description of the design and construction of these very promising machines.