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This Year at the 'Royal'
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ONCE again the Royal Show, which opens on July 7 at the new permanent showground near Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire, will feature a number of commercial vehicles exhibited by firms who have become "regulars" at the show. These will naturally have an agricultural background, and several interesting new models will be on view, including a recovery vehicle with atcommodation for two horses and a new 12-ton-capacity single-axle semi-trailer. The usual range of farm trailers, loading equipment, snow clearing equipment, and so on, will also be there.
Dealing first with the bodybuilders, Carmichael and Sons (Worcester) Ltd. will be exhibiting five vehicles on Stand LL An Albion Chieftain CH13AXL chassis and cab, complete with a 20-ft. by 8-ft. platform body, will be exhibited with a partalloy Everclean cattle truck body, complete with self-loading hinge-type decks, divisions and spring-assisted rear ramp. Two Champion mahogany cattle containers will be shown, one on a Commer 7-ton chassis and the other on an Albion Reiver six-wheeler. The Carmichael exhibits will be completed by an all-alloy bulk tipping body on a Morris 7-ton chassis, fitted with Milshaw tipping gear, and an alloy milk float body on a Leyland 2-tonner.
Lambourn Engineering Ltd. will exhibit two horseboxes (Stands F24 and L50) one on a Commer 7-ton chassis and the other on a Bedford TK 5-ton chassis, each with accommodation for four horses. Lambo urn also expect to have at the show a special recovery vehicle based on a Bedford TK 5-ton chassis. With accommodation for two horses, it will be fitted with a sledge for recovery of fallen horses. This sledge will be arranged for winching on to the vehicle, and winches will also be fitted to the front of the vehicle to assist its progress over very rough ground. A three-deck livestock container on an Austin 7-ton chassis will be shown by A. C. Penman Ltd. (Stand L48) along with a three-horse fixed body on an Austin 3-ton diesel chassis.
Peterborough Engineering Co. Ltd. will show on Stand D30 a bulk transport body designed for handling feeding stuffs and grain. It will be mounted on a Leyland Comet 13C/3R chassis fitted with Edbro tipping gear, and will be of composite construction, employing aluminium framing and Chassisply panelling. The vehicle will be equipped with the Pengco standard design of pneumatic handling equipment. Also to be displayed will be a self-contained Pengco demountable unit which converts a platform vehicle into a bulk tipper, and a light trailer unit designed for suction loading of bulk grain and similar commodities. This is a pneumatic handling kit powered by an air-cooled Volkswagen petrol engine.
Regular exhibitor at the Royal Show is G. C. Smith (Coachworks) who will be showing on Stand L45 a four-stall horsebox mounted on a Bedford TK chassis, a livestock body of all-metal construction, with special interior fittings, which will be mounted on an Austin diesel chassis, and a general-purpose livestock body on an Austin chassis. Smith's exhibits will be completed by general-purpose livestock and horsebox trailers.
An interesting exhibit will be that on Stand .110 where Weeks and Co. (Engineers) Ltd. will display a new 12-ton
single-axle semi-trailer with fifth-wheel coupling. A special feature of the design is the flooring of the platform, known as the Weeks Crossfloor. Weeks will also show a low-loading machinery trailer transporter, and an example of the Weeks stillage system incorporating a two-wheel stillage trailer with a hydraulic-lift platform, hauled by an industrial tractor.
Atkinsons of Clitheroe Ltd. will show on Stand F26 their Spreadall, Hydramatic, and Universal lime and other farmyard material spreaders and will also exhibit their Howie bullangledozer and snowplough blades, suitable for fitting to the Land-Rover and a wide range of agricultural tractors.
More snow clearing equipment will be displayed by Whitlock Bros. Ltd. (Stand H27/.128) who will show for the first time their Sno-Lander,. twin-auger snow blower, which is tractor p.t.-o.-driven and attaches to the three-point linkage of any tractor or on to most front-end loader arms and, it is claimed, worksextremely well in both wet and dry snow. Whitlock will also show their SX6 six-ton trailer with a 13-ft. by 7-ft. platform for big load hauling and tipping and other examples of their range of trailers, together with examples of grain handling equipment.
Colchester Tillage Ltd. will display a Blackwater automatic sack lifter and a Kemper Frdse trailer/spreader (Stand J11) and the Tye Trailer Co. Ltd. will show a full range of farm trailers. This will imlude a Tye Automatic Feeder, which is a selfunloa,ding hopper trailer. The trailer unloads itself by means of a horizontal auger running the length of the base of the tank, and a vertical auger at the rear of the trailer.
In the field of handling equipment will be several exhibits of interest, including the new KG Multiloda to be seen at the Royal Show for the first time. It will be on the stand of Colchester Tillage Ltd., (Stand J11) and is a front-mounted hydraulic loader suitable for Fordson Dexta and Super Dexta or Massey-Ferguson 35 and 65 tractors. Lodematic Ltd. will once again be displaying their range of lorry loading equipment, (Stand Fl) including the Lodematic automatic sack tippler, and the Lodematic tail loader which is actuated automatically by sack weight. Also to be seen will be a new engine crane, with hand-hydraulic operation. Several other items of equipment of interest to operators are to be seen. The B.R.D. Co. Ltd. will be exhibiting their range of transmission shafts and p.t.-o. shafts on Stand A2, whilst Ruhery Owen on Stand F18 will display a selection of agricultural trailer axles, together with torsion bar axles for horsebox application, and a selection of two-stroke rams suitable for agricultural tipping trailers.
A wide range of airand water-cooled diesel engines will be shown by Petters Ltd. (Stand G22) including the new Petter AA1 lightweight engine which is continually rated at 3.5 b.h.p. at 3,600 r.p.m., and is claimed to be the smallest engine of this power in the world. Petters will also be exhibiting a ThermoKing refrigeration unit which is specially designed for overcab mounting on rigid vehicles, and for containers. The specification includes a reverse-cycle defrost.
The Rover Company Ltd. will be exhibiting their full range of Land-Rovers on Stand J33, and Simms Motor Units Ltd. will be displaying a comprehensive range of diesel fuel injection equipment and electrical equipment on Stand D6. The Simms exhibits will include Minimec fuel injection pumps and the Simms Inertia Starter, the latter shown in exploded form.