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)eath kiss for loulton coach?
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3 ALEX MOULTON, of rubber spension and bicycle fame, iubts whether the Moulton ach will ever be produced beuse "it has been around too lg."' Too much evaluation and idy of a completed design and nning prototype bestows the ;s of death, he says.
The coach was designed and It about ten years ago at the quest of Sir George Harriman,
chairman of BMC, after Dr Dutton and a small team had olved a prototype lorry afforlg "superb ride, handling and Id holding-. It had indepenntly strung wheels interconcted by fluid, as in the Hydrotic suspension of BMC cars, d "everything was mounted a lattice structure of steel bes of immense stiffness mbined with low weight-. The principles were extended a long-distance coach, but no inufacturer at home or abroad s been willing to take up the sign. Dr Moulton, addressing Royal Society of Arts and the
of Royal Designers for iustry, observed a little sadly: Ieing a complete and deitive design doesn't help its Dption by an existing firm." On a more helpful note he :Jed: "I am confident now it elements from it, particuy the Hydragas suspension d the principles of tubular istruction, will be taken up rldwide and applied to other >igns of coaches."