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28th September 1962
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Keywords : Bus, Livery

QRD BRABAZON claims aviation has had more than fits share of intellectual half-wits. Other branches of nsport suffer, too. Facetious advice by laymen is the lot which daily has to endured by most operators. But better things are pected from the august City Press.

Yet in a survey of the commercial vehicle industry, which ;ently appeared in a national financial daily, worn-out lacies replace facts. Thus we read, "With tighter profit trgins in industry, it is no longer easy for transport magers to build Parkinsonian trunk empires."

It never was. The facts are that penal interest rates amel industrialists to reduce stocks below practical levels. le inevitable result is a continuing series of dispatch room nics which transport managers are expected to resolve— a price. But even so, many hauliers and transport managers work profit margins and salaries which would be considered icken-feed in other industries. And as for Parkinsonian ipires—where are bigger and bigger office blocks being it—in the City of London!

ne of the Problems

'HE Seddon export chart shows that they have made deliveries to over 50 different countries. Their tnaging director takes the view that, although entry into Common Market would be no bad thing, one of the ficult problems for the smaller manufacturers might be ig-distance servicing, and he is currently examining the ssibilities of various European centres for such purposes. Mr. Redmond, who has been a member of the S.M.M.T. iuncil for the past three years, has had 32 years in the lustry, having joined the Seddon brothers in 1930 after ing auditor to the company.

vvisible Exports

7 what are now called public images sometimes differ [uite substantially from the actual facts it is not always consequence of any manoeuvring by those concerned, this country few people associate Seddons with bus Auction, but those who visit the Oldham plant know it useful numbers of passenger chassis are produced :re. When I asked him where they all went, the manag; director, Mr. Harry Redmond, reeled off a list that ;luded India, S. Africa, Bermuda, Borneo, Australia, w Zealand, Uruguay, Argentina, Ghana and Belgium. Mr. Redmond's influence has undoubtedly been a [Liable factor in spreading the Seddon name around the irld for If:s business journeys run into hundreds of msands of miles.

Follow That Mere

TT appears that Mercedes-Benz trucks are at last being "noticed on British roads—though perhaps not quite in the way the company would have wished!

In a recent copy of Eagle, the weekly children's paper, a Mercedes truck featured in one of the adventure series, used by (you've guessed it!) the villians.

People say that there is no such thing as bad publicity. Mercedes suggest that the villians " chose " a Mercedes because they could depend on fast acceleration and freedom from breakdowns while engaged in their nefarious pursuits!

Delivery on Livery

" AVING intended for many years to display all the coaches on their stand at Earls Court in the same colour scheme, regardless of their intended operators' livery, a well-known bodybuilding concern actually achieved it this year—not without some hesitation, as one of the three vehicles was unsold and there was some difference of opinion about the wisdom of having them all in the same livery.

They need not have worried. On the first day of the Show, a Scottish operator unhesitatingly bought the unsold coach. " Ah," thought the coachbuilders, "now we'll have to get it resprayed in his colours." Not a bit of it. It turned out that not only was the operator influenced in his purchase by the colours used; he wanted another two similar coaches in the same livery, and please could he have the specification of the paint so that he could get his existing fleet– some eight vehicles—resprayed to match!

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People: Harry Redmond
Locations: Zealand, London, Borneo

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