Super models in super truck
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Ds puns go, Wheal's Far-go Location i Vehicle Services, is a pretty good example of the genre. The cleverly monikered company offers what it calls a Super Truck, used for carting around the likes of super models Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss.
Based on a Mercedes chassis the striking vehicle is the most advanced location vehicle in Europe, according to Derek Wheal, co-director of Wheal's Fargo. The vehicle has no rear window so special features include Backeye, a CCTV reversing video system manufactured by Brigade Electronics of South London. "There are tremendous potential cost savings as regards vehicle damage and the added bonus is that our drivers can now make manoeuvres that they never could before," says Wheal. The CCTV system operates as soon as reverse gear is engaged and provides wide-angled visibility for a distance on standard trucks of between 15 and 25 metres.
Sounds absolutely state of the art, but I'm afraid it's too new fangled for the Hawk. When I want to see what's behind. I just poke my head through the hole in the roof of my Reliant Robin, caused when I stopped too suddenly at the bottom of Box I liii one misty morning.