Radio Speeds up Spares Service T O facilitate the rapid dispatch
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of spares to customers, the Car Mart, Ltd.. Austin distributor in London, has installed a radio transmitter-receiver at its central depot at Hendon, London, N.W.9, and has equipped five service vans and a pick-up with similar mobile apparatus. The cost was about £1,200.
Althougft it has been in use for only a short time, highly satisfactory results are already apparent, not. only in attending to customers' requirements but also in obtaining more efficient use of vehicles. • Pye amplitude-modulation equipment was chosen and installation work was performed by Alfred Imhof, Ltd.. 112-1J6, New Oxford Street, London, W.C.1. The light-alloy tubular aerial on the roof of the building is itself 100 ft. high and its overall height is approximately 300 ft. above sea level. A good coverage over the London region is obtained, but it is hoped to erect a mast on one of the London heights as soon as formalities have been completed. This would be connected to Hendon by a land line. • The base apparatus is of the Pye series P.T.C. 703/704 type and that in the vehicles Pye series P.T.C. 112/113. The mobile equipment has a power consumption of 5.3 amps. on stand-by and reception. and 7.8amps. on transmission. Vehicle call signals are after the style of Austin car designations.