Double-deck Body Weight Cut to 2 tons 3 cwt.
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AT the Motor Industry Research Association's test track at Nuneaton, last week, Saunders-Roe (Anglesey) Ltd., demonstrated a new light-alloy double-deck bus body weighing only 2. tons 3 cwt. No structural failure occurred in the body or chassis after 500 miles of running on the Belgian pave and corrugated sections of the test track.
Mounted on an A.E.C. Regent Mk. III chassis, the new. body, which is entirely of light alloy, • provides seating for 56 passengers.. Overall dimensions of the demonstration vehicle were 26 ft. by 7 ft. 6 ins, and unladen weight 6 tons 16 cwt. The lightest Rivaloy double-deck body made by Saunders-Roe to date weighed 6,860 lb., compared with the 4,816 lb. of the new design, The • main features of the new body include aluminium-alloy. H-seettion pillars, solid-riveted internal stress panels and external panelling attached by Ch.obert rivets. A new form of structure is incorporated in the intermediate roof using diagonal bracing. Durex abrasive non-slip float treads are bonded directly to the linoleum an both upper and lower decks_
The tests of the vehicle running on the track with fail load were witnessed by 12 officials of corporation and company bus operators, as well as by London Transport Executive staff and certifying officers of the North.Western and West Midland Teaffic Areas. On the basis of the strain measurements recorded during the test, the bodybuilder claims that the new body marks a step forward in the effort to reduce weight and promote long life SIX WEEKS IN A DOUBLEDECKER A S1X-WEEK tour of Great Britain, totalling 3,020 miles, is being under taken by schoolboys in a 16-year-old Leyland double-deck bus. The boys are pupils at Rushey-Mead School, Leicester, and the vehicle is driven by MT. C. Ansa-) Smith, the headmaster, who 'bought it last year for £80.
The vehicle left Leicester on July 28
and proceeded via Newark and Lincoln to Grimsby, and then travelled as far as John o' Groats. After making a comprehensive tour it arrived in Liverpool.
Next, it travelled via Warrington to Wales. The tour, which is now reaching its end, also takes in Bristol, DeVon and Cornwall and London.
The boys are all members of the Youth Hostels Association and in Scotland were accommodated in youth hostels. The Y.H.A. of England and Wales cancelled the hostel bookings because the party was travelling by bus. The Association's rule is •that guests must travel by foot, bicycle or canoe.
The upper deck of be bus was, therefore. equipped with mattresses and was used as a dormitory for some of the boys.
This year, Mr. Anson Smith has taken six parties of pupils to the Festival of Britain in the old Leyland. Last year, the vehicle toured France and Spaid HOSE THAT SUITS ALL NEEDS
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