"Artic" Saves 250 Miles a Week
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ESPECIALLY designed for loading by mechanical methods, a new Albion-Scammell oil-engined articulated an operated by Thrift Stores, Leeds, wholesale grocers, has replaced two petrol vehicles and is saving 250 miles of running a week.
J. H. Jennings and Son, Ltd., Sandbach, built the cab and semitrailer body. The cab is wider than normal to afford better vision for manceuvring. Light 'alloy is employed extensively in the body. There are three roller shutters on each side and the lower portions of the sides hinge down in three sections. Twin doors are fitted at the rear.
The outfit is used to carry goods to branches in York, Sheffield and Doncaster and averages 16 m.p.g. of fuel. The maximum load is 10 tons. Petrol vehicles formerly employed returned an average of 9 m.p.g.