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A.E.C.s 10 SWITZERLAND: II. Kleine and Co. of Zurich have ordered four A.E.0 Mandator and one A.E.C. Mammoth Majo six-wheeler chassis. Park Royal reinforeei plastic cabs will be fitted.
POWER-PLUS FOR FINLAND: Om hundred Leyland 0.400 Power-Plus diese engines have been ordered by Vanafat Autotehdas Oy of Harneenlinna, Finland The engines will he fitted into Vanail trucks, some of whir-h will be operate( in temperatures down to minus 40° F
DUTCH RELIANCE BUSES: Fifteci A.E.C. Reliance single-decker bus chassi: have been ordered by Bravantsche Buurst poorwegen en Autodiensten of Breda Holland. Bodies will be built by N.Y Auto-Industrie Verheul, A.E.C. distributor! in Holland.
COMET TANKERS: Forty Leylatu Comet trucks ordered front Asho Leyland, Ltd., will be fitted with 2,000. gal. tanks and used as aircraft fuellers the Indian Air Force. The order h worth £120,000.
DRINK UP!: Bodies designed to carry 401 dozen bottles of beer will be fitted to tin nine Thornycroft Swiftsure 6-ton chassi! ordered by Mann Crossman and Paulin Ltd. The vehicles will be used on deliveriel in a 50-mile radius around London.
ATLANTEANS FOR BOLTON: Boltor Corporation has ordered .1.5 Leylant Atlantean rear-engined double-deckers Fourteen will have semi-automatic ant one fully automatic transmission, Eigh. will have bodies built by East Lancashirt Coach builders, Ltd., and the other sever bodies by Metropolitan-Cammell-Wey. mann, Ltd.
£500,000 ORDER FOR SCAMMELL: British Railways have ordered 300 Scammel Scarab tractive units and 862 Scammer semi-trailers worth in all £500,000. The tractors will be 6-ton petroland dieset engined models and 3-ton petrol-engines models. The trailers range from 3to 12. ton capacity models.
MORE FOR EARLE; A repeat ordet for five Leyland Super Comas has bees placed by G. and T. Earle, Ltd„ of Hull The contract calls for three haulage arm two tipper models.
LEOPARDS 36-FT, LONG: Black and White Motorways, Ltd., Cheltenham, have ordered nine 36-ft. long Leyland Leopard coach chassis. Plaxtons (Scarborough), Ltd., will build the bodies.
SCAMMELLS ORDERED: Thomas Allen, Ltd.. Stanford-le-Hope, has ordered three more Scam mell Highwayman tractive units.
1540M. ON ROADS
ABOUT £540m. will be spent on road construction over the five years ending 1966-67, said Mr. MarpIes in the Commons last week. Spending during the next financial year would be £90.5m. and during that 12 months work on trunk roads would be increased by about 50 per cent.
Scotland's programme was described by Mr. John Maclay, the Secretary of State. He said that next year's expenditure of £12m, would increase annually to give a total of approximately £67.5m. over the five-year period 1962-67. Here, too, trunk road building would be increased.