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Seddon to spend ove a million
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SEDDON ATKINSON is t spend £1.5m on new produci next year, managing direct( Barney White announced Kelvin Hall last week.
With a turnover last year c £90m, he said Seddon Atkir son were a force to be rect oned with in the commerch vehicle business.
Had it not been for the er gineers' strike, the number c vehicles built would have bee nearly 5500.
As it was, 5000 were buil and registrations for 197 reached 4500.
Mr White said that the 30( Series in particular was prc ving to be extremely sue cessful, having taken 9 pe cent of sales through the yea with a peak of 11 per cent ove the last couple of months.
Employee/managemen relationships were good a Oldham, he went on, so•mucl so that production had risei substantially over the las eighteen months, without an: extra staff being taken on.
New models, includinl probably a lightweight trac tive unit, would be announce( next year and Seddon is wor king closely with Internationa Harvester as far as en gineering knowledge is con cerned.
The Seddon Atkinson 300-Series ha proved very popular, capturing 9 pa cent of sales through the year.