ORDERS AND DELIVERIES £1,750,000 LEYLAND ORDERS: The Leyland Motors Group
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secured orders worth over £1,750,000 at the Commercial Motor Show. • Two-thirds of this was obtained by Leyland, whilst Albion and Scammell each negotiated over £300,000 worth of business. Orders for the new Leyland two-tonner amounted to over £500,000. The Kowloon Motor Bus Co. ordered 100 Albion Victor single deckers, worth £125,000, whilst Hoveringham Gravels, Ltd., ordered 70 Chieftain Super Six tippers worth £127,000. Leyland bus orders included one worth £112,000 for 45 Tiger Cub single-deck buses for the Western Welsh Omnibus Co. Scammell semi-trailer orders were valued at over £50,000, other orders gamed by this company including one worth £80,000 from South Africa for 20 Highwaymans and six Sherpas,
TANKER ORDERS: Orders for road tankers to the value of f35,000 were taken at the Commercial Motor Show by Universal Boilers and Engineering Co.. Ltd., on The occasion of their first representation at the Show.
ROUTEMAN MARK II SUCCESS: Orders for 45 of the new Scammetf Routeman Mark II rigid eight-wheelers were received on the opening day of the Commercial Motor Show to the total value of over £180,000. Deliveries will commence in January, 1963.
AUSTIN'S SUCCESS AT SHOW: At the Commercial Motor Show the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., received orders worth 050,000 from U.K. sources. The total value of orders placed at the Show for Austin vehicles was over £1.5m.
COMMERS FOR TURKEY: An order worth nearly £350,000 was received from Turkey by the Rootes Group on the eve of the closing of the Commercial Motor Show. The order was for 650 Commer l5-cwt. vans, light buses and Commer Cobs, and includes a quantity of spare parts. The vehicles have been ordered by the Rootes distributors in jstanbul, Otomak Turk Ticaret, Ltd., and will be shipped in C.K.D. form
Sales made at the Show by Rootes exceeded Lim.
JCBs for M6: Sir Alfred McAlpine and Son. Ltd. have ordered nine hydraulic excavator shovels from 1. C. Batnford (Excavators), Ltd., for use on the Warrington Preston and PrestonLancaster sections of the M6 Motorway. The order comprises six JCB 4s and three 'CB 3s.
FOR LIQUID OXYGEN: The British Oxygen Co., Ltd., have ordered 12 Albion Clydesdale chassis. They will be fitted with tanks for the transport of liquid oxygen.