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    SIMPLE BRILLIANCE

    Jul 01, 2020 6 minutes
    Words John Ford
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    Phil Cerbu and supplied

    Innovation is a crucial feature in all our caravan reviews, so it’s time we shed more light on a significant Australian-owned and manufactured product that adds to the safety and ride of any tandem axle van.

    In the first major innovation from the stoic Victorian company in a while, Simplicity Axles’ latest take on their load sharing suspension features coil springs. Called LSC — standing for load sharing coil — the addition of a coil option alongside the traditional leaf spring version has brought quite a transformation.

    THE COMPANY

    As part of NP Hauffe and Company, Simplicity Axles has been making caravan suspensions as well as industrial and military trailer underpinnings since 1974. Started by Norm Hauffe in 1956 in his parents’ backyard in Regent, a factory was opened in Reservoir as a general engineering business, before the company moved to Epping, Vic, in 2002 — a deliberate relocation to the centre of Australia's caravan manufacturing hub. They’ve been

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