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INDUSTRY WELL REPRESENTED AT COPENHAGEN THERE is a strong contingent of 1 manufacturers of commercial vehicles, tyres, components and accessories at the British Exhibition, which was opened at Copenhagen last, Saturday and closes on October 3. A.E.C., Albion, Austin, Bedford, Bradford. Commer, Dennis, Dodge, Fordson, Guy, Karrier, Land-Rover, Lansing-Bagnall, Leyland, Maudslay, Morris-Commercial, Proctor, Scammell and Trojan vehicles provide a representative cross-section of the wide variety of types offered by British makers.
Tasker trailers and Ferguson tractors are also on view Tyres of Avon, Bergotignan, Firestone, Henley, India, John Bull, North British and Pirelli makes are shown, along with products of the British Piston Ring, Beckett, Laycock and Watkinson, Cornercroft, Epco, Harold Andrews, Oldham, Raybestos-Belaco, Small and Parkes, Smiths Motor Accessories, Specialloid, Tudor Accessories, and Wakefield concerns.
The Danes are greatly intrigued by British double-deck buses.
LOOSE CLASS ON STILLAGES
GOES BY ROAD AND SEA I-IN September 16, Pilkington Bros., Ltd., began, as an experiment; to transport loose glass on stillages by road and sea from St. Helens to Northern Ireland. Three different types of vehicle, each with a second driver, were used—a maximum-load eightwheeler, a 12-ton six-wheeler and a 7-ton four-wheeled low-loader, all with ail engines.
Between them they transported 26,000 sq. ft. of glass, weighing about 28 tons. The machines crossed by vehicle ferry from Preston to Lit me, and delivered the glass direct to customers in and around Belfast.
When wood, straw, wood-wool and other packing materials became scarce, Pilkington Bros., Ltd., tried the expedient of loading sheet and plate glass on stillages without packing. The system proved to be highly satisfactory and its success has led to the extension of that method of delivery to Ireland.
A28 ARGENTINA GIVES LEYLAND
£600,000 ORDER _ AN order for 300 vehicles of various types. valued at £600,000 sterling, has been received by Leyland Motors, Ltd.. from Argentina. Special import and exchange permits have been granted under the Andes trade igreement. The vehicles have been ordered by A. G. Pruden and Co., Buenos Aires, Leyland agent in Argentina, for distribution to various customers. Mr. F. W Pruden is now in England.
The machines to be supplied will include heavy 125 b.h.p. four-wheeled chassis, some with semi-trailers; heavy 125 bhp. six-wheelers, some to be used as 3,700-gallon tankers; Comet lorries, and Comet tractor chassis, many with semi-trailers. All the vehicles are to be export models with left-hand drive and will have direct-injection oil engines.
It is understood that the semi-trailers will be* built by R. A. Dyson and Co., Ltd., of Liverpool.