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M-13 goes for Swiss show boost
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• High Swiss labour costs have led to the development of high-specification refuse collection and public cleansing vehicles. Swiss manufacturers have also designed municipals for swap-body and intermodal operation, and all these trends were reflected at last week's Transpublic 89 show in Geneva, where all-wheel-drive chassis were much in evidence.
Mercedes-Benz dominates
Above: This Ganglott linemaintenance vehicle is based on a VW LT35 4x4 chassis.
the Swiss PSV and municipal sectors, with more than half of all sales, and the show launch of the Spanish-built MB100 is designed to boost its share of the transporter market.
Swiss specialist bodybuilder NAW is an associated Mercedes-Benz company that tailors the M-B range to suit Swiss operating conditions and legal requirements. Recent examples include rear-steer 6x4 chassis that take advantage of Switzerland's 25-tonne GVW limit on this class of vehicle and the LU1720 low-cabbed, mid-engined chassis (CM 15-22 December). NAW has also produced the MB6035: a 12x6 chassis, with drive to the first, fourth and fifth axles.
Mercedes-Benz used the Geneva show to launch a particulates filter designed as an option for PSVs and municipals. It burns off soot deposits by injecting acetyl acetone to activate the catlyst coating of the ceramic yarn filter.
An interesting MAN F90 variant is a 14-tonne 8kW allwheel-drive chassis for fire appliances. It is powered by a 218kW engine driving through a 7.F5 HP590 automatic transmission. Another MAN exhibit, specially engineered for Swissoperating requirements, was the 19.292 FV 6x2 chassis for refuse-collector bodywork.
Scania did not have its' own stand at Geneva, but specialpurpose vehicles were shown on Scania chassis, including a bridge-inspection unit on an eight-wheeler and the novel VLS "sliding hook" loader, designed to be compatible with all types of demountable bodies and skip containers.
The Swiss will soon allow virtually unrestricted use of 2.5m-wide vehicles, but Volvo continues to offer "narrow gauge" versions of the FS, now built in Sweden. A number of these 2.3M-wide units were on display at Geneva.
' Sole representative of Daf engineering was the Swissmodified AFD 3325 low-profile refuse collection vehicle with Ochsner bodywork, It featured a second driven and steered axle for operation at 25 tonnes.
A display by Swiss Police and fire services included the Unimog-based rescue and recovery unit for service in road tunnels in Zurich.