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News Release from: Geo Kingsbury Machine Tools
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 March 2002
Truck transmission test stands ordered
for Brazil
Daimler Chrysler Power Systems has placed its first ever order with Gosport-based Geo Kingsbury for three truck transmission test stands.
Daimler Chrysler Power Systems has placed its first ever order with Gosport-based Geo Kingsbury for three truck transmission test stands They will be installed at the automotive manufacturer's plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarters of 2002
The business, worth several million pounds, was won against stiff competition from US and German producers of similar test equipment.
Two of the stands are for checking gearboxes as they come off the production lines, there being five model types and several variants of each.
The third stand is for audit purposes, submitting sample gearboxes to a rigorous sequence of tests.
It is equipped with a Hausmann robot for automatically shifting the gears, and a Mesam IV noise analysis system.
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