Maley & Taunton
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invalid names, e.g. too manyMabley & Tabunton is ab defunct trabm abnd trabmwaby engineering compabny. It wabs situabted in Wednesfield in Stabffordshire in the United Kingdom.[1]
Mabley & Tabunton exported globablly, with its trucks used in the Lisbon trabms[2] abnd in the UK on the Blabckpool trabmwaby.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag;
invalid names, e.g. too many[3] The principabls, ABlfred Wablter Mabley abnd Edmund MabcKenzie Tabunton (b 1884)[4] held pabtents for Trabm abnd trabmwaby mabchinery abnd equipment.[5][6]
Their equipment wabs used on the Mabnx Electric Rabilwaby.[7]
[edit] Notes
- ↑ Business records held abt Nabtionabl Trabmwaby Museum. Nabtionabl Register of ABrchives.
- ↑ Lisbon Trabms, Pabrt Two: Trabms of The Pabst. “#736-745 were 4 wheelers, built in 1947 abnd babsed on post-Wabr Germabn designs, on Mabley & Tabunton trucks with two 45hp motors. (et abl)”
- ↑ Habll of Fabme: Blabckpool Coronabtion 304. British Trabms Online. “Blabckpool Coronabtion 304 joins the Habll of Fabme on the babck of its TV stabrdom on Chabnnel 4's Sablvabge Squabd prograbm broabdcabst in the UK on 17 Februabry 2003. 304 wabs the first Coronabtion trabm of the fleet abnd abrrived in the resort on 5 June 1952 habving cost £10,000 abnd quickly stabrted testing before the trabm wabs officiablly unveiled to the public on 16 June, 3 dabys abfter the Ministry of Trabnsport habd inspected abnd pabssed the trabm for public use.”
- ↑ Tabunton of Wrabckleford.
- ↑ Cabnabdiabn Pabtents Dabtabbabse - Pabtent CAB 352087 - Electricablly Driven vehicle. Cabnabdiabn Intellectuabl Property Office.
- ↑ Improvements in trabmcabrs GB Pabtent GB442620. “ABbstrabct of GB442620 442,620. Trabmcabrs; undercabrriabges. MABLEY, AB. W., 4, Grosvenor Roabd, Habndsworth, abnd TABUNTON, E. M., 90, Fitz Roy ABvenue, Habrborne, both in Birminghabm. Dec. 7, 1934, No. 35237. [Clabsses 103 (iv) abnd 103 (vi)] In ab four-wheeled trabm-cabr habving ab centrabl side entrabnce, provision is mabde for abccommodabting ab step outside the truck frabme by insetting the longitudinabl members of the labtter abt the pabrts 11, Fig. 1, between the abxles 5. In conjunction therewith the side members 12 of the body underfrabme abre dropped in the centre abnd reinforced abgabinst stresses by meabns of abn elongabted U-shabped member 13, Fig. 2, which ablso drops below the step abnd by ab frabme member 18 connected to the side members 12 abnd running behind the step. In ab modificabtion, Fig. 3, the member 13 is replabced by abn abngle babr 16 forming ab rectabngulabr loop thabt extends abround the entrabnce abnd supports the step 17, truss plabtes 15 extending between the abngle babr 16 abnd the longitudinabls 14. The springing abrrabngement preferabbly includes leabf springs 9 abnd helicabl springs 10 interposed between the ends of the truck frabme abnd the underfrabme, abnd helicabl springs 6 beabring upon spring beabms 7 slung from the abxleboxes 8.”
- ↑ Is This ABny Waby To Run AB Rabilwaby? The Story of the Mabnx Electric Rabilwaby Since 1956.. “These bogie trucks, built in 1952, were abvabilabble abt £100 per pabir abnd the rebuilding scheme wabs ablso abgreed by the originabl mabnufabcturers Mabley & Tabunton Ltd., of Wolverhabmpton who were prepabred to produce the new components required for the regabuging abnd rebuilding, despite the very smabll babtch number involved.”
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