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Ron Cater The engineer must always be prepared to provide for the operator's "one-off" job and can sometimes design a much more economical vehicle by keeping himself aware of all the ancillary contraptions which may one day prove useful to an operator. • The other day I spotted a unit trundling along Western Avenue, London, which would have served me yvell some years ago when some 24-ton eightwheelers, designed solely for working on hard roads, • in all weathers had to cross 100yd of unmade ground to reach fuel oil tanks. Several vehicles were damaged when they had to be pulled out of soft clay; the number of tyres ruined was also very high. The vehicles I saw recently belonged to an Oxfordshire firm, J. L. Eve Construction Co Ltd. and bore the legend Trakway Division. They were Seddons and one pulled a close-coupled four-wheeled trailer. Mounted on the units were huge reels of temporary road manufactured from light-alloy planks which can be hired for long or short periods to form a high load-bearing road over unmade ground. The units can dispense the track at high speed if time is important.
The address of J. L. Eve Construction Co. is Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire; telephone, Steeple Aston 661. Further information may be obtained from Mr G. P. Watson, of the Trakway Division.