Cravens and Taskers form `3rd force' sales company
Page 35
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
• Announced this week is the formation, within the John Brown Engineering Group,
of a new national sales organization, Cravens Industries"Sales Ltd, to market the standard range of products manufactured in the commercial vehicle field by the Cravens Homalloy and Taskers Trailers companies at their seven UK factories.
Initially, the sales company, which is based at Andover, will field a sales force of 20 representatives, the nucleus of which is the amalgamation of the Cravens Homalloy and Taskers sales teams.
These representatives will work in specific areas covering the whole country and in close liaison with a national network of regional offices and officially appointed distributors. Technical back-up and service facilities will be provided by the Group's factory-based centres at Andover, Cumbernauld, Garstang, Preston, Rochford, Sheffield and Woodville.
Director and general manager of Cravens Industries Sales is Mr Norman Mellors, with Mr Ian J. McIntosh as general sales manager and Mr Frank Saville as marketing manager.
Standard products manufactured within the Group include frameless boxvans, a comprehensive range of semi-trailers and trailers and all types of vehicle body work.
"All these products," said Mr Mellors, "are in the commercial vehicle field and are interrelated with one another. This being so, it makes good sense to create a 'Third Force', as it were, to co-ordinate the marketing activities of what, in effect, is a third transportation manufacturing company of significant capacity in the industry today."
Ford goes all-metric
• Ford of Britain's research and engineering centre at Dunton, Essex, has now switched over completely to using metric units on all new designs. Dual dimensions have been dropped completely and all new engineering drawings, specifications and procedure are in metric SI systems as laid down by the British Standards Institution in 1965,
Hoynor address
• The address of the manufacturers of Hoynor trailers is Redment Engineering Ltd, Springwood Industrial Estate, Rayne Rd, Braintree, Essex, and not as listed in our bodybuilders' guide last week. The telephone number is Braintree 2900, 1126 or 1114.