£5m. Export Orders for Leyland B R AZ1L and Uruguay have
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ordered over 200 Leyland Royal Tiger underfloor-engined bus chassis and Comet oil-engined lorries. These contracts are worth more than £500,000, and bring export orders now in hand at Ley land to well over £5m.
Brazil has placed firm orders for 60 Royal Tigers, and it is understood that negotiations are proceeding for the supply of another 180. Montevideo has ordered 29 Royal Tiger chassis and 25 Leyland M.C.W.-Olympic buses, Agents in Uruguay have placed bulk orders for 103 Comets and a number of super-heavy-duty lorries.
30,000 MILES IN 30 CIRCUITS ON PAVE
STRIKING preliminary tests of the
light alloy chassisless vehicle designed by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., under the mgis of the general manager, Mr. D. M. Sinclair, have been made on the Belgian pavd track at the M.I.R.A. proving ground near Nuneaton. After a few runs at varying speeds, it completed, with entire satisfaction, 30 circuits non-stop at 30 m.p.h., which, according to the M.I.R.A, calculation, is equal to 30,000 miles on normal roads in this country.
The vehicle was described in our issue dated September 15.
OBITUARY WE regret to announce the death of vv Ma. Joint BLACK, Scottish divisional manager of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., and Me. T. D. H. BROWN, acting general secretary of the National Federation of Vehicle Traders. Mr. Black was 54 and was at one time with
Albion Motors, Ltd. Mr. Brown, a solicitor, was 65 and joined the N.F.V.T. in 1946. He became acting general secretary on the recent death of MR. E. C. M. BURRELL, general secretary of the Federation.