LUCKY IT WAS STEEL! Slipping down a P. & T. trench, an Upper Hutt bus came out of control on the Taita Gorge Road recently. It came to rest at a precarious angle but the seven passengers and driver were all able to scramble out of the driver' $ door shaken but unhurt. The nine ton Ministry of Works crane was successful in easing it back on to the road and the bus itself, apart from one broken window , was undamaged and was driven away: What 0 tribute to the safety of steell Ask any of those passengers- ~they would be profoundly emphatic on the safety of steel bus bodies. SAFETY DEMANDS ALL-STEEL BUS BODIES Safety experts are unanimous in an all-steel framework constructed their approval of all-steel construc- from pressed steel sections of our tion: The Managing Director of own design and welded together in New Zealand Motor Bodies 'Ltd: special jigs into one unit of enorm- the largest omnibus and coach body ous strength: Not only does this builders in New Zealand said in provide the type of protection for 0 recent interview: "The protection passengers indicated by the inci- afforded by wooden construction dent shown above, but the all- cannot be compared with steel. Our welded construction means freedom steel frameworks are tested to from rattles and squeaks which are strains far greater than would ever inevitable where bolts and screws normally be expected of them. The are used in the assembly of the bodies built by this company have framework:
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 540, 28 October 1949, Page 12
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