Recent Leyland Group Overseas Orders
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ON behalf of The Burmah Oil Co. (1954), Ltd., Petroleum Supplies and Services, Ltd., have ordered four Albion Clydesdale tractive units and a Scammell Constructor 6 x 6 oilfields vehicle, to the total value which is said to amount to more than £20,000.
The Albion chassis are to have Leyland 400S 125-b.h.p. oil engines and will be operated with 2,000-gal, tank semi-trailers on petroleum-distribution services. The tanks will be constructed by W. B. Bawn and Co., Ltd., and mounted on Cranes semi-trailers.
A 184-b.h.p. oil engine will be fitted in the 30-ton Scammell chassis, which will have a 9-ft-wide body. A Woodfield Senior winch is to be supplied with the finished vehicle.
Shell International Petroleum Co., Ltd., are shortly to take delivery in Turkey of six Leyland Super Hippo petrol tankers. These vehicles have Leyland I 50-b.h.p. oil engines and 3,500-gal, fourcompartment tanks built by Thompson Brothers (Bilston), Ltd. The chassis are fitted with 47-point automatic lubrication equipment an4 will be supplied 'with snow chains.