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Lightest Low-loader I WAS interested to see reference on page 39 of your I April 12 issue to a lightweight Dyson low-loader semitrailer manufactured from high-tensile steel in which it was stated that a comparable standard model would weigh 8 ton 13 cwt.
I should like to point out that the standard Scarnmell 30-ton low-loader machinery carrier with 22-ft. well and ft. wide weighs only 6 ton 15 cwt. and with a 9-ft.-wide well and 4-ton hand winch still weighs only 7 ton 4 cwt. In fact the range of Scammell semi-trailers of this type is undoubtedly the lightest on the road.
They are manufactured from mild steel and the low weight is achieved by an integral stressed-skin form of construction. As may be seen from the photograph, the semitrailer has a steel platform welded to a carefully designed frame to provide a very light, strong carrier.
Watford, Herts. P. F. Wood, Publicity Manager, Scarnmell Lorries Ltd.
Popular Features mAY. I take this opportunity of congratulating your magazine on the way it has gone into Europe with British vehicles and given interesting and exciting accounts of conditions over there. Common Market or no, the fact is that goods vehicle traffic to the Continent is on the increase. I, for one, look forward to following your correspondent and his companions across the borders of foreign countries• in the future. The very excellent photographs and maps which you reproduce in these features certainly help to make them very readable indeed.
Horley, Surrey. E. FRASER.
Safety First?
I NOTICED the letter from Mr. J. W. Morris in your A issue of last week. Surely though the first three of the safety measures suggested are startlingly self-evident. In view of the large loads so consistently lost one would have thought that, at least, drivers were locking their cab doors by now!
Canonbury. N.1. AMAZED.