Economise goes Stateside
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• Econocruise of Rugby has won a contract to supply a Cummins Engine Company subsidiary in North America with over 21 million worth of commercial vehicle speed control systems.
Econocruise will initially supply SPC (Service Products Company) with around 4,000 of its EMA systems per year. SPC will distribute the systems through 29 independently owned outlets across the USA and Canada which will in turn supply area sub-agents.
All the American speed control systems — which SPC calls Compucruise in line with other products in its range such as Compucheck, the engine diagnostic equipment — will be built at Rugby. The contract will mean a quadrupling of Econocruise's production.
The speed limiter manufacturer, which as part of the now-disbanded AE group became a Turner and Newall subsidiary earlier this year, won the contract after an 18month comparative test programme which included Ctnnmins' own speed limiter.
Econocruise says that SPC and its distributors were particularly impressed with the EMA system's relatively low cost, its reliability, ease of installation, and the size of the fuel econorn-; savings it produced on typical American Class 8 long-haul journeys.