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4 order worth £250.000 for 256 Comet single-deck bus chassis has secured from the Ceylon Transport -d by Leyland Motors Ltd. This is rticularly interesting order, as recent rifles of the Board have read rather a fairy story—one minute the Board
standarditing on Fiat buses. the minute on Mercedes-Benz. and so Leyland Motors do, in fact. state the order was "captured from ml other bus manufacturers of d standing".
:yland also state that 550 Leyland Lip double-deckers purchased exdon Transport by the Board are to ugmented by another 218 ex-London, type double-deckers. The Leyland lets will be shipped c.k.d. and mbled and fitted with all-alloy bodies se Ceylon Transport Board's central (shops.
e Roe-bodied leylands for Hull: ;ston-upon-Hull Corporation Transport placed repeat orders for 10 Le' land means with 75-seat bodies by Chas. II. Ltd.. Leeds. and five Leyland Panther e-deckeN with 45-seat. front-entrance, -al-exit bodice also to he built by Chas. toe Ltd.