NEWS IN BRIEF
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B.M.C. Exports Set New Record: Overseas sales of B.M.C. cars and commercial vehicles in 1962 continued to rise and at nearly 275,000 units, created a new record. The assembly plant for medium and heavy commercial vehicles near Bogota, Colombia, is in full production and agreements with Ets. P. Willeme in France and Sociedad Anonima Vehiculos Automoviles (S.A.V.A.) in Spain, mean that shipments of commercials to these markets are increasing. In its first full year of production the S.A.V.A. factory at Valladolid completed nearly 2,000 B.M.C. S.A V A. vehicles.
Good Year for Ford of Germany: Total production of light commercial vehicles by Ford of Germany in 1962 was 29,697 compared with 26,321 in 1961.
Seammell Increase: During the year ended October. 1962, overall sales of Scammell semi-trailers increased by 10 per cent compared with the previous year. It is said that although there is increasing use of fifth-wheel semi-trailers the demand for automatic coupling is also continuing to rise.
Turkish Import Restrictions: The Turkish Government has removed road goods vehicles from the list of liberalized imports and made them subject to a quota system.
Russian Production Up: Some 309,780 commercial road vehicles were manufactured in the Soviet Union over the first threequarters of last year. This compares with production of 307,508 units for the corresponding 1961 period.
Finland's 1963 Imports: The Finnish Government has set the sum of 9,600,000 New Finnmarks as the total value of commercial vehicles to be imported under licence into Finland over the current year.
Bugatti To Build Diesels: Hispano-Suiza diesel engines are to be assembled at the Bugatti factory in Molsheim, France. Production will start wtih the DOOD 60 fourcylinder unit, which has a capacity of 4-19 litres and develops 70 b.h.p. at 2,400 r.p.m.
Company Acquired: Speedograph Ltd. U.K. and Commonwealth sole concessionaires for the HICO range of recording instruments, has been acquired by G.E.C. Ingle Ltd. engineers.
Supplying Rootes and B.M.C.: A factory at Prudhoe-on-Tyne which Engineering Productions of Clevedon, Bristol, have just opened will supply customers in Scotland and Sweden including Rootes, B.M.C. and Saab.
Feco Hoists Acquired: Birfield Ltd. has purchased the total issued share capital of Felco Hoists Ltd.