Scammell Announces Leasing Plan and T.I.R. Body
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LEASING facilities for periods from _ three to ten years under plans arranged by Scammell Lorries Ltd. with the Equipment Leasing Co. Ltd. (Elco) were announced at the beginning of this week on the occasion of the handingover of the 100,000th Scammell semitrailer to Bishops Wharf and Isherwood Ltd., a subsidiary company of the Transport Development Group Ltd. Details were released also of the availability of tilt bodies built to T.I.R. specification.
The arrangement of the leasing plan .is such that the customer specifies the number and type of vehicles or semitrailers required, Elco purchases these and leases them for the period mutually agreed. By the end of this time the customer can extend the arrangements for a further term of years at a nominal rent of 0.5 per cent of cost a year, make Elco an offer to purchase the vehicles or semi-trailers outright, or replace the vehicles, in which case Elco guarantees to refund the net proceeds of the sale of the old vehicles. No deposits are required.
The T.I.R. bodies are available in 8-ft.wide form with a length of 25 ft. 6 in. and a height of 8 ft. 8 in., or 7 ft. 6 in. wide with lengths of 26 ft. or 27 ft. and a common height of 7 ft. 6 in. Softwood or hardwood flooring can be provided, whilst the side and roof slats and the dropsides, headboard and tailboard are all of softwood. The four hoops are of 1-25-in. outside-diameter mildsteel tube, and the tilt can be of either ForIitex 450 quality blue-dyed and ' Minister of Transport will open
Pit British Road Federation's European three-day conference, "People and Cities", at Friends House, Euston Road, London, on December 10.
Organized with support of the Town Planning Institute, the conference stems from the view that Britain's urban centres have reached crisis point; the conference will therefore investigate urban renewal problems through the eyes of the economist, the sociologist, developer and local authority as well as through those of the planner, engineer and architect.
Chairmen will be the Earl of Gosford and Mr. A. C. Durk, B.R.F. chairman and vice-chairman respectively. The main speakers come from Britain, France, Germany and Belgium and will include Mr. C. D. Buchanan, urban roads adviser to the Minister of Transport.
B30 proofed cotton-core nylon tear-stop weave, weighing 17 oz. per sq. yd., or blueor green-dyed and proofed cotton duck ON/BDP/BM, ON/GDP/BM, weighing 21 oz. per sq. yd.
The handing-over ceremony was carried out by Mr. D. G. Stokes, sales director of the Leyland Motors Corporation Ltd. and managing director of Scammell Lorries Ltd., and the semitrailer was accepted by Mr. C. H. Palim, North-West area executive of the Transport Development Group Ltd. The semi-trailer was a Spaceframe 12-ton model with fifth-wheel coupling gear. Mr. Stokes said that since Scammell had introduced the articulated vehicle to Britain in 1921 the company's production of semi-trailers had averaged 2,500 units per annum and that since Scammell became part of the L.M.C. some seven. years ago production of semi-trailers had expanded tremendously, whilst production of heavy lorries had been more than doubled.
On Display A large selection of representative Scammell products was on display for the benefit of the visitors, of particular interest being a tandem-axle tank semitrailer operated by Crow Carrying Co. Ltd., with a brake-system conversion effected by the operators: the semitrailer had the normal mechanical braking system operated by a plunger passing through the Spherub coupling, but as this meant that the semi-trailer could not be operated with conventional fifth-wheel tractive units, a servo had been added for actuation through a twoline system, whilst the coupling pin also had been adapted.