Leyland : Stand 50.
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The Leyland Co., among its numerous other exhibits, is showing a 450-gallon fire-engine for the Shanghai Fire Department. This machine has a four-stage centrifugal pump, with provision for taking three lines of hose. Its engine is one of the Leyland Co.'s standard 55 h.p. type, and this maker's special arrangement of exhausting pump, which is driven by gearing through the special changespe...A gearbox, is also fitted. A handsome 32-seated torpedo chara banes, built to the order of Mr. Cyril B. Armitage, of Blackpool, on a standard 40 h.p. chassis, is also shown, and backing on to this is one of the Westminster type of municipal tipping wagons, which has been built to the order of the Bombay Corporation, This is a re peat order, and makes the fourth Leyland petrol wagon owned by that corporation, which already has in service 10 steam wagons built by the same maker. The Leyland special form of dipped solid hack axle is fitted to this machine, and the final drive is through a doublereduction gear and differential shafts, which pass through hollow
extensions to the solid axle forging, thus transmitting the drive direct to the road wheels, and enabling the transmission parts to be removed when necessity arises without lifting tackle or jacks.
A 30 h.p. pantechnicon van, with roomy body, for William Whiteleys, Ltd., is another of this company's exhibits ; this is mounted on one of the Leyland subsidy chassis, which, it will be recalled, was the first of the chassis built to the War Office specification to receive the subvention certificate. There is also staged a. 40 h.p. four-toa delivery van with stiff-sided .canvas-covered body, for F. Lazenby and Son, Ltd., and one of this maker's standard six-ton steamers with poppet valve engine. This lastnamed model, like the older type of Leyland steamer, has a vertical firetube boiler and an underslung engine, with a two-speed gear and final drive by side chains to the back wheels. In fact, the general lines of construction of this steamer and the older model, which the company still makes, are much the same, the principal difference being the adoption of mushroom valves in place of slide valves, thus permitting of the use of steam of a higher temperature and increased economy without running any risk of trouble with the valves due to the burning away of the lubricating oil.
The Eastbourne Corporation has six Leyland motorbuses in service, and six more on order.