DPA Fuel Pumps on The Continent
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" A REMARKABLE partnership" was
PA how Mr. B. F. W. Scott, vicechairman of C.A.V., Ltd., described the Roto Diesel, S.A., concern at the inauguration last week of Rota Diesel's new factory at Blois, France.
Rota Diesel was founded in October, 1959, by C.A.V. and the French D.B.A. group (Ducelier, Rendix and Air Equipement) to manufacture in France under C.A.V. licence their DPA fuel pump.
A production of 8,000 a month, for sale all over Europe, is eventually envisaged. This year's production of DPA pumps will be for Perkins engines, which are also made in France under licence. These engines are mainly used on the Citroen U23 truck and HY light van, the Hotchkiss truck, and the Renault Galion light van.
The opening of the Blois factory marks the fruition of a C.A.V. desire not only to serve British vehicle and engine manufacturers selling on the Continent, but also to establish themselves in the widely developing diesel engine industry in Europe.
To avoid the setting up of a very large stores, Rote, Diesel relies for supplies, tools and aluminium casings, on a regular road service from C.A.V.'s Rochester, Kent, factory. This service is carried out on a basic fortnightly schedule with an A.E.C. Mercury from the C.A.V. fleet.
Normally, the Dover-Dunkirk ferry route is used. the round trip occupying four days and the driver staying with the vehicle throughout the trip. Wherever possible, cage pallets are used for the loads. Extra journeys are arranged as necessary.
(Left) This Perkins-powered Hotchkiss is typical of the many French vehicles ,fitted with a DPA pump.
Security Exhibition
A NATIONAL Security Exhibition Ti rA to be held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, London, S.W.!, from October 16 to 20. Sponsored by " SccurIty Gazette "—the magazine of the industrial police and commercial security organizations—the exhibition is the first of its kind to be staged in this country.
It will cover all aspects of security for commercial and industrial premises, vehicles, and homes, and show the many different ways in which it is possible to obtain more protection for fife and property against the twin menaces of our time—crime and fire.
There will be demonstrations by guard dogs and commercial security services. The safety of goods in transit is receiving special attention and there will be plenty to interest commercial vehicle operators.
VEHICLE PLANT FOR SYRIA TWO HUNDRED buses, 1,000 goods 1 vehicles, and 600 cars, is to he the capacity of a new vehicle plant to be built near Lattakia in the Syrian region of the United Arab Republic. The plant, to be called the Nasser Automobile Works, will produce the vehicles under licence from the Fiat concern of Italy,