All Wheel Drive and Met. Cammell G OOD results in 1962,
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and a satisfactory order book, are recorded for All Wheel Drive Ltd. in the annual report of Vickers Ltd.; Vickers bought a 60 per cent interest in the company in January last year, the remaining shares being held by Clark Equipment Co., Michigan, U.S.A.
Another Vickers group company, Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Co. Ltd., showed increased busbody output. Deliveries during 1962 included 287 Olympic integral buses for export and nearly 300 bodies to U.K. customers. Among new orders were 51 more Olympics for Uruguay and Jamaica and 646 double-deck bodies for the U.K.
With growing experience of operators' requirements, the commercial vehicle division concentrated its efforts on a smaller range of bodies for which, says the report, there are prospective demands.
Burman for Clydesdales BURMAN recirculating-ball steering 1-0 gear is now standard on all Albion Clydesdale four-wheeled goods chassis, this replacing the Marles cam and doubleroller equipment formerly fitted.