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4 unusual facts about Barton Transport


Barton Transport

Barton imported Lancia chassis from Italy, which were lengthened and fitted with a patented tag-axle by Barton.

Leylands were purchased from the mid-1930s and made up a large part of the fleet by the beginning of the Second World War.

Barton scored a first by operating the first diesel-engined passenger-carrying road vehicle, a Lancia, in 1930.

Herbert Akroyd Stuart

In the same year, Thomas Henry Barton (who later founded Barton Transport) at Hornsbys built a working high-compression version for experimental purposes, whereby the vaporiser was replaced with a cylinder head, therefore not relying on air being preheated, but by combustion through higher compression ratios.



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