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Quick move by Cummins
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THE CUMMINS B-Series range of three, four and six-cylinder engines, the former Family One range, which was to have been assembled at Leyland's doomed Bathgate factory, will now be built at Cummins' Darlington plant in early 1986.
Cummins has responded very quickly to Leyland's closure plans for Bathgate in order to have its new engine range available in time, and has spent £12m re-equipping the Darlington plant.
Leyland was to have been the biggest UK customer for the BSeries, the plan having been to fit them in place of the 98Series, in the recently announced Roadrunner. Even that now seems to be in doubt (CM September 29).
Nevertheless, Cummins must see many other potential European customers for the engines which are suitable for construction and industrial equipment, generator sets and agricultural applications as well as for light/mediumweight lorries and buses. Hence its keenness to have them available as soon as possible.
The B-Series will take Cummins into the 56-180bhp sector in Europe for the first time and the initial production capacity will be the same as it was to have been at Bathgate — 40,000 units per year.