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Tough for trailers?

12th May 1967, Page 101
12th May 1967
Page 101
Page 101, 12th May 1967 — Tough for trailers?
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FOA/ British trailer makers have penetrated the Scandinavian market. The main sale of Scammell models in this territory is semi-trailers fitted with the automatic coupling gear. Scammell feel that this is a continuing market, and one that will develop to their advantage.

Gloster-Saro Ltd. have no great experience of export conditions there, but feel that the position will be easier than in the Benelux countries. It is intended that Sweden and Denmark be visited to assess the potential for their products, the main reason for selecting these two being that they are the only two European countries that appear in the top six list of major British commercial vehicle exports.

York Trailer Co. has distributors in Finland and exports complete trailers through them. York Freightmaster semitrailer vans are very popular there, and their distributors of Oy Suomen Hiab of Helsinki have requested that the vans be lettered York-Laatua—"York quality".

Sweden, too, has been a market for York trailers although the bulk of the export traffic is in components. York trailing-axle six-wheel conversion kits are exported as fast as they can be manufactured and are intended for installation on trucks built overseas. Other items in great demand are York axles, fifth-wheel couplings and running gear kits.

A trailer manufacturer with a large export business to nearly every part of the world is R. A. Dyson and Co., who find that their knock-out-axle trailers are very popular in Finland. Two such models to be seen operating there are the 20-ton and 30-t9n drawbar types. J.F.C.