Quick Delivery Gains Polish Order
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BY being able to offer quick delivery from the stock of their Danish associates, Dansk Automobil Byggeri, Leyland Motors, Ltd., have obtained an order for 15 vehicles from Motorimport, purchasing agents for the Polish Government. There was keen competition from Germany and France.
The vehicles are Worldmasters, with two-pedal control, and bodies will be built by Dansk Automobil Byggeri. Special heating and ventilation systems will be incorporated for use in an extreme climate. Ten of the vehicles will be used as 57-60-seat buses, and five as luxury coaches for tours by foreign visitors.
Of 200 buses supplied to Poland by Leyland in recent years, 100 had 125 b.h.p. oil engines, and units of this type have been specified for the new vehicles.
LEYLANDS THIRD OF NEW BUSES
ONE in every -three buses registered for the first time in South Africa in 1955 was an offer exported by the Leyland group of companies, figures issued by the Bureau of Census and Statistics of South Africa reveal.
Germiston City Council have placed a further order with Leyland Albion (Africa), Ltd., for 16 Leyland Worldmaster chassis with two-pedal control. They will be shipped to Port Elizabeth, where they will he fitted with local bodywork.
Worldmaster running units are to be incorporated in 30 Olympic buses to be built by Bus Bodies (S.A.), Ltd., for Pretoria Municipality and eight for the Cape Town Tramway Co.
EARLY START ON COST TABLES?
RATES were last week considered at length by the long-distance hauliers' committee of the Road Haulage Association. The committee were anxious that an early start should be made with the preparation of schedules of operating costs, in accordance with a resolution passed at the Association's conference in October.
A subcommittee, consisting of Mr. F. E. Russett, Mr. R. J. Elmes, Mr. A. T. Dale, Mr. A. Scott, Mr. T. J. E. Price and Mr. R. S. Heaton, was set up to consider the practicability of preparing a guide to fair rates.
The long-distance committee's next meeting will be held on December 5.
A TO REPLACE B IN a reserved decision the Yorkshire
Licensing Authority has granted an A licence for two vehicles to Mr. H. J. Walker, Gomersall, Leeds, subject to 'the surrender of a B licence. At the hearing (The Commercial Motor, September 21) it was stated that increased work for existing customers outside the B-licence radios was in excess of existing A-licensed capacity and was uneconomic because of the need to transfer loads.