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New £250,000 Orders from Iran

1st November 1957
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ORDERS totalling nearly £250,000 for six-wheeled 4,000-gal. tankers, required for fuel distribution in Iran, have been placid with Leyland Motors. Ltd., by the National Iranian Oil Co.

In the past 18 months, Leyland have earned contracts from various Iranian undertakings to the value of nearly £2m. These cover dumpers, oilfield vehicles, and Worldmaster and Comet-M.C.W. passenger models.

The N.I.O.C. want 60 Super Hippo tankers with 150 b.h.p. engines. Designed for a gross vehicle Weight of 24 tons, the vehicles will augment over 350 Leylands already in use by the concern. Their capacity of 4,000 gal. will be 500 gal, greater than that of the largest tankers at present run by the company from their Kermanshah base. Ignoring recommendations, $ome operators carry as much as 4,350 gal. with Super Hippos, but the N.I.O.C. have previously limited payloads to 3,500 gal. Super Beaver tankers carry 2,625 gal. (These figures are approximate.) Many of the vehicles for Iran are being shipped to Beirut, where they are formed into convoys and driven 700 miles across the desert to their destinations. Worldmaster buses will also be delivered in this way, but the tankers wjll be shipped to Iran in completely knocked-down form for local assembly.

The biggest articulated outfits, for the Ahwaz oilfields, are also shipped to the Persian Gulf. They are for Iranian Oil Services, Ltd., and have power-assisted steering.

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