Henschel-Ford Tie-up ?
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RUMOURS that U.S. Ford may be seeking a controlling interest in the German Henschel concern are circulating on the Continent. Talks are believed to have been taking place between the two companies, but no official statement has
• been issued. Such a move would give U.S. Ford a ready-made heavy-goods'VehiCle interest on the Continent, complementary to the light range of vehicles built by Ford of Cologne. The Henschel range extends up to 40 tons gross. As stated in The Commercial Motor of September 29 last year, there is already a 25-year plan of co-operation between Henschel and the SAVIEM.
Scammells on Tour
ACONVOY of some of the specialized vehicles produced by Scammell Lorries, Ltd., has left their Watford works for a tour of Britain, which will take several months. The object is to provide examination and demonstration facilities for operators in major towns and cities.
The convoy includes a Scammell Scarab tractive unit with a 6-ton semitrailer, a Leyland Super Comet tractive unit with a Scammell Fourtrak semitrailer, an Albion Clydesdale tractive unit and a Scammell Univan, and a Scammell Handyman tractive unit with a Scammell tandem-axle semi-trailer. This last unit carries display items and sectioned exhibits, including a Scammell fifth-wheel coupling and a display illustrating air and rubber suspension available on Scamrnel I semi-trailers.
NEW A.E.C. SPARES DEPOT THE spares distribution facilities of A.E.C., Ltd., in Scotland, are being extended; a new spares depot was opened on Tuesday at 121 Pitt Street. Leith, Edinburgh, 6 (telephone, Leith 7586).
This centre will reinforce the spares facilities available to Scottish operators and administered by A.E.C. through their regional depot at Glasgow, the Dundee depot of Oswald Tillotson, Ltd., W. D. Munro, Ltd., Aberdeen. and Ben Motors. Ltd., Muir of Ord. Ross B2 STRONGER TYRES
AFTER exhaustive four-million-mile testing, the U.S. Rubber Tire Co., a subsidiary of the U.S. Rubber Co., have announced a new chemical bonding agent for tyres which, it is claimed, greatly reduces ply and tread separations.
Sustained high-speed driving on modern motorways causes stresses which result in a break-away between plies and tread, and the new bonding. CVC—a combination of a plastic resin and a chemical of the Triazine family—minimizes these hazards, according to the makers. The chemical is polymerized, or fused, within the rubber, forming a bond as strong as the rubber itself.