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CUTTING DOWN A COACH BODY.

5th September 1922
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Converting a Large Body to Fit a 30-cwt. Chassis.

I T IS CERTAINLY not customary to

build a motor coach body to carry a large number of passengers and then to cut it down to take fewer people, but that this tniusnal procedure can he followed without much trouble is indicated in the accompanying . pictures, which show how a full-size char-i-bancs body was cut down by the Carlton Motor Services, of Tinsley, Sheffield, to fib a smaller type of chassis. Originally designed and built with five full side panels, the body was cut through 18 ins, behind the front of the foremost side panel. Another cut was then taken through the detached portion at the back line of the door, and the two parts of the body were then built up to fit accurately. The original two front garden seats were discarded and the original transverse seat at the front moved back to the door line. It will be seen from the semi-plan view that the driver's seat tips on to the near side to allow of ready access being made to the seats arranged in pairs behind the front row. In all 20 persons can be accommodated in the vehicle besides the driver.

Although the body appears at first glance to be fairly wide at the front, it certainly does not give any indication that it was not originally designed and built to fit the chassis to which it is now wedded.

The chassis to which this body is attached is a 30-cwt. Shefflex built by Sheffield Simple; Ltd., of 20, Conduit Street, London, W.1, and after the conversion was made the complete vehicle passed the Sheffield police test for public service vehicles with the utmost ease-. The test, which takes place in some of the hilly districts in and around Sheffield, is said to be one of the most severe to which public-service vehicles are subjected in this country.

Extending the Coaching Season.

The Pros and Cons of the Problem.

MANY coach owners believe that the coaching season will extend well into the autumn this year, the ground for the assertion being the absence of good weather up to the end of August, and the lack of opportunity for passengers to avail themselves of motor coach tours in consequence.

There are always plenty of advocates fchr.eNtending the period during which tours' might be popular,. but unfortunately the supply of coaches is determined not by the coach owners preferences, hui: by the demand of the public. It must not be forgotten that in October dusk sets in at an early hour, and it is hardly conceivable that passengers can be booked merely for journeys through darkness.

So far as Saturday afternoon runs are concerned football matches are the great

attraction for the man in the street,se that one of the only two days of the week upon which business might.be done has to be ruled out. Sunday is a day which does hold out possibilities in an extended touring season, but la it worth while to take out a. licence for the late

months in the year, when there is only .a one-day demand, Coach owners must simply go where the crowds want to go. If football matches are the. great attraction,. then the opinion is ventured that this is the class of business worthy of attention.

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Organisations: Sheffield police
Locations: London, Sheffield

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