A Comprehensive Spare-parts Service
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Details of the Activities of a London Company Specializing in Components for Heavy Vehicles
THE operator of commercial vehicles is frequently faced with the need for purchasing spare parts, either for old chassis or for models of recent manufacture and, whilst wishing to obtain thoroughly reliable supplies, intends to do so at competitive prices.
For the past 12 yeats the Trident Engineering Co., Ltd., 38, Gough Street, Loudon le.C.1, has been specializing in the manufacture and marketing of spare parts for heavy commercial vehicles, principally. those of British manufacture.
An inspection of the company's stores reveals the fact that wearing parts for both old and new machines are stocked in useful quantities, so that demands can be met immediately ; if needs be the spares can be put On a passenger train within an hour of the receipt of the order..
A special point has been made of ensuring that, whilst the prices are reasonable, only the best classes of material are used. For example, all axle shafts are made from a nickel.. chrome steel of at least 70-ton quality. This, as in the case of all other
materials, is of I3ritish manufacture.
The machine-tool layout is capable of dealing with the smallest parts up to the largest brake drums, a wide range of which is kept in stock, as are axle shafts, crankshafts and cylinder blocks, the bores of which are ground on the premises. All finished products bear the trade-mark and guarantee of the company. With regard to the stock of valves, these are kept not only in a wide range of types to suit all makes of commercial vehicle, but are kept in the stores in batches, for each of which different materials have been used in order to be aide correctly to fulfil demands made by customers, either for valves similar in material to the original specification or to meet the needs of those who require special alloy steels of recent development.
Although the activities of the concern deal primarily with popular Britishmade vehicles, stocks are kept for certain American machines. Another speciality consists of the fulfilment of orders for spare parts for obsolete vehicles ; they are produced either from patterns or in accordance with drawings.