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Plastics Panels for Pantechnicon

8th September 1961
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COLOUR-IMPREGNATED glass-fibre panels, on a hardwood frame with mild-steel pillars, arc used throughout a 1,200-cu.-ft. Luton van built on a I3-ft. 7-in. wheelbase Dodge 5-ton chassis by Wokingham Pantechnicon Co., Ltd. The

vehicle has a 250.6 Cu. in, petrol engine. It is one of two such vans operated by F. W. Clifford, Ltd., Westminster, London. S.W.1, exhibition and building contractors.

The vehicles each cover an average of SOO miles a month carrying exhibition equipment, mainly in London. They have an unladen weight of 3 ton 10 cwt. I qr. Translucent glass-fibre sheets have been welded into a one-piece roof for the vehicle. The body panels are joined together with a catalytic resin glue, and are glued and screwed to the frames. A timber floor is fitted.

B.T.C. Buses Earn More RECEIPTS on the British Transport Commission's road passenger services have gone up. In the four-week period to August 13, London Transport's bus receipts were £4.590.000, compared with £4,379,000 in the same period last year.

On the Tilling and Sconish buses, receipts rose to £6,335,000 this year from £6,105,000 last year.

U.D.C. Seeks Own Buses

14EXHAM (Northumberland) U.D.C.

has been told that it had no powers to give financial assistance towards the running of a town bus service. The MidTyne Transport Co.. Ltd., in a letter, suggested that a town bus service could be run as a joint enterprise.

The firm offered to provide an efficient service, but the council would have to reimburse any loss. Any profits from the service woulel be used for the benefit of old people.