Delivery Vehicles at the Dairy Show
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rOR the first time for several years no new models are featured among the electric. delivery vehicles at the Royal Dairy Show which opened on Tuesday of this week and closes today. There is also a reduction in the number of manufacturers exhibiting these, only three being represented — Austin Crompton Parkinson Electric Vehicles Ltd., Smith's Delivery Vehicles Ltd., and W. and E. Vehicles Ltd.
The latest Morrison four wheeled electric shown by Austin Crompton Parkinson is the F/Fg 30 cwt, which has cab doors that slide forward to lie behind the windscreen when open. The same model was shown at the Commercial Motor Show, but the Dairy Show exhibit is for Express Dairy and has a grocery compartment and cold store at the rear. Having similar doors to the F/Fg, and also a 30-cwt, model,fis the D/Fg, while the third important Morrison exhibit is the Gunner, which has a large grocery section incorporated in the cab, a canopytype roof without rear supports and a
platform which can be hinged upwards from the rear to give access to the electric motor and so on. This vehicle is the one exhibited for the first time at the 1963 Show and since then has been in service with United Counties Dairies Ltd.
Smith's Delivery Vehicles also took part in the Commercial Motor Show and featured their latest models there; the Dairy Show is therefore mainly a repeat performance. The three exhibits are the S.95D (which now has a moulded plastics dome and front scuttle) with a load capacity of 2 tons, the S.75D 30 cwt.. which is of all-plastics construction and, like the S.95D, has sliding cab doors. and the S.55D which has a capacity of 1-25 tons and; again, is of all-plastics construction and has sliding doors, The four exhibits of W. and E. Vehicles Ltd. are, of course, three-wheelers and the latest is the Major which was introduced last year. This has a capacity of 30 cwt. and is shown in the livery of United Dairies Ltd. A Rangemaster is exhibited also and this is one of a large order for London Co-operative Society Ltd. and illustrates an important breakthrough by W. and E. who received their first order from L.CS. about 18 months ago and have since supplied almost 200 vehicles. Completing the W. and E. exhibits are an "1 " type which was introduced to give a -little more speed and greater range than the Standard, which is the fourth exhibit. This is in the livery of Express Dairy.
Apart from the electric vehicles there is little of transport interest at the Dairy Show. The exception is the stand of G. C. Smith (Coachworks) Ltd. where a two-tier livestock container on a fourwheeled drawbar trailer is shown. The container and trailer platform slope downwards at the extreme rear and the container sides overlap the edge of the platform to provide location, there being two holding-down bolts on each side. The concern is also displaying a small twowheeled trailer and a four4heeled closecoupled trailer, both for the transport of livestock.