Patent GB-589295-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to vehicle bodies and other structures
IPC: B62D33/04
Filed: 1944-09-11
Abstract: 589,295. Vehicle bodies. LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BOARD, and SAINSBURY, A. W.. Sept. 11, 1944, No. 17329. [Classes 103 (iv) and 108 (i)] In a vehicle body or other structure in which sectional transverse frames are connected to one another by side panels bolted to the side pillars, each panel 9 is provided with apertured brackets 10 by which it is bolted to the side pillars 1. As shown in the exploded view Fig. 2 vertical side posts 1 of U-shape with an indentation in the base are provided on each side of the vehicle and corresponding posts on opposite sides of the vehicle are connected by cross bearers 6 to make a series of U-shaped frames, the cross bearers being bolted to the chassis longitudinals 31 by clip bolts 32. The space between adjacent vertical posts on the same side of the vehicle is filled with the sheet metal panels 9 provided with the brackets 10 for bolting to the posts by bolts which pass through one or both flanges of the U-section. The abutting edges of adjacent panels are sealed by a rubber insert and the panels are provided with a buffer moulding 13 and a turned up lower edge 14 on which a hook-shaped lip 15 of a skirt panel 12 is hung. The side posts are braced by gusset plates 26 and an extension bracket 29 is bolted to the end of the cross bearers 30, the space between the bearers being filled with detachable floor units. The upper end of the panels 9 are inturned and formed with a flange 23 for sliding engagement with a groove in the window 16, the upper end of the window being bolted to an inturned flange of an upper panel 19 or, alternatively, the window frame may be bolted to the side posts as shown on the right hand side of the figure. A shroud 25, attached to a wood filling 3 is preferably secured to the outside of the post 1 between the top and bottom of the windows so as to conceal window fixing means &c., and an interior panelling 40, Fig. 1, may be detachably secured to the pillars 1. In the case of a double deck vehicle, panels 17 extend from the upper deck floor to the upper deck waist rail and are bulged at their lower ends to overlap in spaced relation, the panel 19 below to form a drip plate to throw water clear of the lower deck windows, the space 20 between the panels 19, 17 also provides for the ventilation of the floor boards 21 forming the upper deck and an outlet for washing water. The end frames are joined to the side frames as shown in Fig. 1 in which vertical posts 35, 36 are joined by panels 9 and their lower ends are connected by cross bearers 6<1> which may be interrupted in the centre by an arched member 33, the posts being braced by stays 39. The upper ends of the posts are connected by cross bars or hoop sticks 8. The Provisional Specification states that the adjoining ends of the panels may be provided with a U-shaped lip adapted to fit over a correspondingly shaped rib extending longitudinally of the pillars, each pillar being provided with two of these ribs which are located one on each side of the longitudinal centre line of the base of the U-section pillar.