40 Arabs for Africa
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nN Monday, the first of40 Guy Arab
buses for Bulawayo. Municipality, Southern Rhodesia, was -Made available for inspection by the Overseas Motor Transport Co., Ltd., 120, Pall Mall, London, S.VV.1. With Duple 36-passenger body, it stood out as .a credit to British production of public service vehicles for overseas.
The operatof (under municipal licence) is the Bulawayo Omnibus Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the Overseas Motor Transport Co., Ltd., which has fleets working in .several territories of East and Central Africa.
Gardner five-cylindered oil engines are fitted to the Guy. long-wheelbase chassis, which carry. 8-fi.-Wide bodies.
Built to the specification of the Bulawayo company, the bodies are of composite construction, of natural seasonedteak and iroko timber, reinforced with steel brackets and flitch plates. Floors are of aluminium alloy and inside and outside panelling is aluminium.
Twenty bodies will have 18 first-class and 18 second-class seats, the vehicle which was demonstrated being of this type and having tWo compartments with a partition. Seats in the first-class, or European, compartment have tubular frames with armrests and are upholstered in specially treated tropical-green leather with Dunlopillo cushions. The second-class compartment has slatted wood seats and generous space for standing passengers. The other 20 buses will be each of one class, either European or native, with Seating accordingly.
Special. attention is given to ventilation, and insnlation. is incorporated in
the .sides and roof. . .
In a brief speech on the occasion of the demonstration, Commander F. T. Hare, R.N. director of Overseas Motor Transport Go., Ltd., mentioned that this organization had started Many years ago with a "D.M.T:" (Devon Motor Transport Co.) and might soon have another " D.M.T." in the form of a company for Dar-es-Salaam---chief, port of access to the groundnut scheme's territory.