Dennis plans to dominate
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HESTAIR Dennis has announced that it intends to reorganise its Guildford plant to give it the capacity to produce 800 bus chassis per year.
Encouraged by the performance of the first Dominator in service with Leicester City Transport, which has been returning a fuel consumption figure of 33.81it/100km (8.36mpg), which is even better than Leicester's traditional front-engined buses, Hestair Dennis has set its sights high. It is now aiming for about 50 per cent of the UK bus market by 1981/82.
Orders and letters of intent for 71 Dominators have so far been received from undertakings including Greater Manchester PTE, Cardiff City Transport and two independent bus operators.
The Dennis Dart fire appliance chassis is also being offered for psv application from this year. The Dart is a frontengined chassis at present used for hydraulic platform and turntable ladder fire appliances. It will probably compete with Leyland's Guy Victory and Clydesdale chassis for export markets.
ARGOS, Europe's biggest catalogue showrooms organisation, which plans to expand its current 65 high street showrooms to 100 by 1980, is to increase its transport fleet by a 050,000 order for 17 new Ford 24-ton prime movers, plus 26 new trailers of between 26ft and 40ft. All the new lorries are to be given a new livery — out goes the white and red design and in comes a red and dark brown sandwich of colour bands.