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Daewoo is Alpha's automatic choice
Alpha Flight
Services, the UK’s largest airline caterer, has taken delivery of the first of
nine Daewoo D75 left hand drive chassis cabs with automatic gearboxes. These
vehicles are being supplied through
Saxon Special Vehicles, the Sandbach based fire tender and special vehicle
builder, who has converted the Daewoo trucks to half cab style, with an extended
crew pod. Saxon have also fitted refrigerated catering bodies with a hydraulic
scissor lift to provide the necessary aircraft access.
Local Daewoo Avia dealer Beech’s Garage, Stoke on Trent, coordinated
the sale.
These nine
vehicles are the first Daewoo Avia D-Line trucks to be fitted with the new Allison
LCT2000 automatic box. Authorised
Allison distributor Mitchell Diesel carried out the installation.
The LCT2000 has 5 forward gears, with lock-up in each gear, giving
potential fuel savings over other automatic boxes. The LCT2000 also has an SAE
data interface with the Daewoo’s Cummins ISBe engine to optimise the selection
of the correct gear in all circumstances – for instance automatically changing
down if necessary when the exhaust brake is applied.
