| 摘要 |
A method of constructing a vehicle body from metal roof (10), side and floor panels (12, 14, 16) by welding or otherwise joining whilst loosely holding the fabrications in a jig, the roof panel (10) and two side panels (12, 14) are joined to form a sub-assembly and thereafter the sub-assembly is fitted around a floor panel (16) fabrication and joined to opposite sides thereof to form the vehicle body. During the joining of the sub-assembly of the roof and side panels, internal tooling is employed for holding the fabrications relative one to the other. The first sub-assembly of roof and side panel fabrications is formed using a framing station which incorporates left and right hand tooling gates (36, 38) which carry location and clamping tooling (40, 42, 44, 46) for the two side panels (12, 14), and which enter the assembly from below or from the front or rear end thereof. The tooling or the sub-assembly or both may be moved so as to produce sufficient clearance to allow the sub-assembly to be moved to another workstation. The floor panel (16) includes flanges (24, 26) which are joined to flanges along the lower edges of the two side panels. |
