Wadham Stringer buys Sparshatt group
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II The bodybuilding activities of J. H. includes Wadham Stringer's ambulance parshatt and Sons and of Fergussons production.
\lobar Engineers) are included in a Lim cal in which Wadham Stringer Ltd has ourchased the J. H. Sparshatt group. ncluded in the companies taken over are J. I. Sparshatt (Thorpe) and Reading and Co.
All the Sparshatt companies are based in he Portsmouth area and have depots overing London and the South of England; he Portsmouth works produce bodies for veil over 1,000 vehicles a year; the lparshatt family has been in coachbuilding or more than 100 years and in commercial 'chicle distribution for over 50 years.
Wadham Stringer and Sparshatts are )oth British Leyland distributors and the :ombined unit will be one of the biggest of ts type in Britain, exclusively Leyland.
Sparshatt chairman, Mr J. H. Sparshatt, .emains on the board and also becomes :hairman of the Wadham Stringer ornmercial vehicle division. His son David vill take a seat on the main board and issume responsibility for the whole :ornmercial vehicle division — which