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. 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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