Little Change at Dairy Show
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-DELIVERY vehicles exhibited at the Dairy Show, :h. opened at Olympia, London, last Tuesday and closes tre all battery-electric models, with the exception of engined three-wheeler shown by Wales and Edwards, yle Cop, Shrewsbury. idical innovations are apparent this year and pletely new models are on show. However, Crompton Parkinson Electric Vehicles, Ltd., Vigston, Leicester, show a new cab and body Morrison-Electricar EH20 I-ton dairy float :ed a year ago. The cab is now manufactured -fibre-reinforced plastics and incorporates s.rt bumper, whilst the remainder of the body is ed from light alloy. Eventually, all the bodywork prdduced in plastics.
scats are provided in the cab, which is of the walktype. The vehicle can carry 45 crates at speeds of lf m.p.h., and has a maximum range of 38 miles. Also ;el on the stand is a cheaper version of the Morrisonsr D1-120 vehicle.
ise of 60-v. equipment reduces the number of cells in ;cry and therefore lowers the unladen weight of the to give a slight increase in payload capacity. With rcuitry the vehicle is recommended for operation in bly level areas. It has a maximum range of up to
50 miles and the latest models have a deeper windscreen than before.
For the first time at a Dairy Show. Smith's DeliVery Vehicles, Ltd.. Gateshead on Tyne, 11, show a mobile. shop equipped for ice-cream dispensing. This is their Cornette Mk. ill body mounted on a Bedford CAS 7-ft. 6-in.-wheelbase 15-cwt. chassis. The high roof of the body gives good headroom, whilst the body sides are almost completely glazed.
Fitted in the mobile shop is a Smith's Ereezewell Four counter conservator, which is a recent introduction to their range of cold cabinets. It contains eutectic plates charged by a compressor permanently mounted on the vehicle and driven by an electric motor powered from the mains supply. In operation the plates are charged overnight in situ giving holdover refrigeration for the following day.
In addition to their well known N.C.B. electric dairy trucks. Smith's show a special Commuter battery-electric vehicle which is to be exported to the Republic of Honduras. To deal with the climate there, the vehicle has a fully insulated body.
Other manufacturers exhibiting battery-electric vehicles are Ross Auto and Engineering. Ltd., 30a Zetland Road, Scunthorpe; T. H. Lewis, Ltd., Station Estate, Watford, Herts; the Harborough Construction Co., Ltd., Market Harborough, Leicester; and Sydney Hole's Electric Vehicles. Brighton 6.