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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 518, 27 May 1949, Page 2

Steel greatest life-saving factor The opinion of the bus-building trade generally reveals some interesting safety factors. Experts from New Zealand Motor Bodies Limited, Petone, reflect this opinion. Bus and coach bodies are built to sign and welded together in take great stresses and strains. special jigs into one unit, pos In fact, they have to be built to sessing enormous strength: Not take a far greater strain than only does this provide the type would normally be expected of of protection for passengers in- them. Where these stresses have dicated by the incident shown to be withstood and durability below , but the all-welded con- Is an important factor, the use of metal is much preferred to struction means freedom from wood. New Zealand Motor rattles and squeaks which are Bodies Ltd., the largest pro- inevitable where bolts and screws ducers of bus and coach bodies are used in the assembly of the in New Zealand, have, for sev- framework eral years now, confined their Their overall capacity of 200 production to all-metal con- bodies a year means that New struction. Zealand can now fully cater for The bodies built by this com- her own requirements: of omni- pany have an all-steel frame- bus bodies, and importation of work constructed from pressed bus bodies in any form is un- steel sections of their own de- necessary. NO ONE SERIOUSLY INJURED The passengers in this bus had a lucky escape from serious injury when it was hit by another and turned over on its side. It slid along the road for some 75 feet before finally coming to rest. There were about 26 passengers on board, but only four were taken to hospital and these were dis- charged after receiving treatment for minor injuries.