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Stand 79 AMONG the divers exhibits on this stand, particular interest is being shown in the new 5-tanner and the aerodrome crash tender. These attractions, however, are by no means drawing all attention from the several other machines on view.
As a complete .vehicle,. the 5-tanner weighs under 50 cwt., and is powered by a four-cylindered petrol engine having a Treasury rating of 24 h.p. This is of efficient design and lines up with modern practice. Forming a unit with it, is a four-speed gearbox, whilst the final. drive is by overhead worm.
A six-wheeled chassis forms the basis of the aerodrome tender, and an outstanding point is, the size of the engine used. It develops no less than 100 b.h.p., the idea, doubtless, being. to ensure high speed when travelling to the site of a fire or crash on an aerodrome. There are eight speeds, afforded by the use on an auxiliary gearbox, and a speed of 60 m.p.h. is within the vehicle's capability.
An item of the equipment is a 1,000-1, 5011 g.p.m. a irfoam pump, whilst a tank, built of stainless steel, carries a solution of water and foam sufficient for three minutes' running. Provision, of course, is made for taking a supply of water from a hydrant, so that a continuous output of foam is possible.
The efficiency. of the machine with its airfoam equipment is surprisingly high. In a test, the machine covered a distance of 200 yds. and extinguished a fire caused by soaking with petrol and setting alight a large aeroplane, in a total time of only 67 secs.
Of the four passenger machines, there is an oil-engined chassis for a double-decker. This is powered by the well-known Crossley unit—with Ricardo type bead—which develops 100 b.h.p.
Next, the same chassis is seen as the basis of a 54-seater, the 'body work incorporating a patented steel structure.
Turning new to the two trolleylms exhibits, we find one shown as a chassis and the other equipped with a 68-seater all-metal body. Both are sixwheelers and. have Metropolitan-Vickers equipment, the traction motor being of 90 h.p, One noteworthy point in the transmission is that the foremost driving axle has a third differential.— Crossley Motors, Ltd., Gorton, Manchester.