Leyland Exports 34 Per Cent. Up
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I N the first five months of this year, Leyland Motors, Ltd., exported 34 per cent. more vehicles than in the •com parable period of 1948. Home customers, too, have benefited by some 13 per cent. For every four double-decker chassis delivered to operators in Britain in 1948, Leyland Motors, Ltd., has supplied seven this year.
Expanding business is being done in Scandinavia. Sweden has ordered over 600 passenger-type gearboxes and 1,300 clutches for use in Scania-Vabis vehicles. in addition, eight Comet lefthand-drive lorries with two-speed rear axles have just been shipped to Sweden, and a further nine Comets are on order.
Contracts have been placed by Norway for over 50 Leyland 9.8-litre horizontal oil engines for use in Strommens underfloor-engined buses.
Finland has now received more than half the 24 Comet buses ordered.
Twelve Comet buses for the Copenhagen municipality are to be assembled in Denmark and will be equipped with locally built bodies. Seventeen passenger chassis and 20 Leyland oil engines for use in buses and railcars are also to be supplied to Denmark.
EXIDE CONVENTION rLABORATE plans have been made I—i-for the 20th convention of Exide service agents, to be held at Blackpool from June 21-24.
Mr. H. V. Schofield, M.I.E.E., sales director of the Chloride Electrical Storage Co., Ltd., Mr. C. G. F. Pritchett, M.I.E.E., commercial manager, Mr. D. MacGregor, assistant secretary, Mr. C. P. L ock to n, A.M.I.E.E.. assistant chief engineer, and Mr. C. F. Tomkinson, of the London Press Exchange, Ltd., will be among the speakers.
SIX GRADES FOR FOREMEN
UNDER an agreement between the Transport and General Workers' Union and municipal undertakings, six specific grades for foremen have been set up, with pay ranging from £315 to 4480 a year. The agreement also covers storekeepers responsible for the administration of stores sections, including the supervision of staff.
BODY DRAWINGS ON SHOW
DRAWINGS and examples of handlcrafts entered for the 1949 cornpetitions of the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers of London, Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and the Institute of British Carriage and Automobile Manufacturers will be on view at the offices of the S.M.M.T., 148. Piccadilly, London, W.1, June 30 to July 2.
THREE I.R.T.E. VISITS
ARRANGEMENTS by centres of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers for next month are as follows:—North-west, July 6, visit to the works of Chloride Electrical Storage Co., Ltd., Clifton, Manchester. London, July 14, visit to the A.E.C. works, Southall. North-east, July 21, visit to
the works, Billingham.