SPECIAL CREW-CAB VEHICLES
Page 57
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
A VEHICLE recently supplied to the PA Fens Sub-area of the Eastern Electricity Board by King and Harper Ltd., Morris commercial-vehicle distributors of Cambridge, is fitted with a special crew cab which the manufacturers intend to offer as a production standard. The vehicle was built by R. W. Osborne and Son Ltd., of Saffron Walden, Essex. and is based on a Morris 3-ton diesel 145-in.wheelbase FG chassis.
The cab is of composite construction, with seating for eight passengers including the driver. It is believed to be the first of its kind with outrigger sliding cab doors running outside the body (a method successfully employed by the coachbuilders on their milk float range of bodies). This allows full-width seating without the need for interior cover guards. The doors run on heavy-duty Beclawat rubber-wheeled top tracks with underslung nylon wheels running in a channel beneath the bottom step pan. One 30-in.wide by 5-ft. 8-in.-high door on each side gives adequate access to the three rows of seats. The batteries are carried beneath the intermediate bench seat.
A steel-framed truck body is fitted behind the crew cab, with fixed sides and a removable tubular-steel canopy and canvas tilt. To facilitate 'easy loading of heavy equipment the Electricity Board version hits a 10-cwt. U.S.T. tail loader.
Reliant Expansion
rOMMERCIAL-VEHICLE engine and
transmission . units. are to comprise 25 per cent of the output of the new 30,000-sq.-ft. works of the Reliant Motor Co. Ltd. at Shenstonc, near Lichfield. officially opened last week by world champion Grimd Prix driver Jim Clark.