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MANY 8-FT.-WIDE BUSES BUILT BY M.C.W. CONCERN

9th February 1945
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IN our_issue dated January 19 we published a couple of illustrations giving a good idea of the advantages gained by both conductors' and passengers in •• a bus body of 8 ft. width, compared with the 7 ft, .6 ins. which conforms with general practice. As is generally

• known, the wider' vehicles were originally built for overseas markets and were

. put. into service in this country to help .ameliorate the passenger-transport situation.

Metropolitan Cammell Weymann -Motor Bodies, Lid., Addlestone, points out that the 8-ft,-wide trolleybuses supplied to the London Passenger Transport Board, which were the type illustrated, have bodies of M.C.W. metal construction, and, moreover, adds that of the 81 8-ft.-wide bodies which are now in use in various parts of the country 71 were supplied by the M.C.W. organization.

A SCAMMELL PUZZLE CLARIFIED •

AST week's advertisement of Scammell Lorries, Ltd., illustrated a Scam mell Tank transporter. The upper line of the captionread " 1939144V." This should haVe been " 1939194V," the ".V " indicating the year of Victory.