Leyland " Alt Out" for Exports TWO new developments to increase 1 export trade are announced by Ley
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land Motors, Ltd. First, Mr, a G. Stokes, A.M.I.Mech.E., M.S.A.E., the company's export manager, is undertaking another overseas tour, this time to India, Malay Peninsula, Australia, New Zealand, San Francisco, Vancouver, and New York. The tour will total 27,000 miles and will be made by air, except for the Atlantic crossing.
Mr. Stokes was due to leave England yesterday (January 8). Within the past two years he has completed three extensive tours and has covered 33.000 miles, surveying road transport conditions in 14 countries.
The earlier tours broke new ground and 28 new Leyland agents were appointed. On this occasion, however, Mr. Stokes's main object will be to contact the existing Leyland branches in Calcutta, Bombay, Sydney, and Wellington. His tour coincides with the introduction of the Comet export range of chassis, described in "The Commercial Motor" dated December 19,
"I feel Australia is ripe for a large expansion in the use of oil-engine trucks," said M. Stokes, in an interview. "We need Australian meat, and the Australians need our vehicles. Nearly half of the 750,000 motor vehicles registered in Australia were over 10 years old at the end of the war. More than 50,000 of the commercial vehicles are 15 years or more old,"
The second Leyland export development comprises an agreement with Aktiebolaget Scania-Vabis, the big Swedish commercial vehicle maker, under which designs of vehicle units will be pooled and there will be an inter change of • production technique. Already, orders for Leyland 125 b.h.p. oil engines and bus gearboxes, to the value of £110,000 sterling, have been given by Scania-Vabis. Engineers from the Swedish company. have visited the Leyland factories at Chorley and Kingston.
" Under the agreement, Scania-Vahis will pay in hard currency for access to the design of units developed in the Leyland research organization," said Mr. Stokes, ' Since the end of the war, Leyland Motors, Ltd., has secured export orders valued at £6,000,000.