NEW S.A. PLANT TO MAKE GUTBROD VEHICLES
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GUTBROD commercial vehicles are to be produced in quantity in South Africa by the Swiss South African Engineering Corporation (Pty.), Ltd., a company with the financial backing of Swiss interests and the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa, Ltd. Initial output has been suggested as 200 vehicles a month. A skeleton plant exists at Pretoria and is at present making four light vans a day. Before the end of the year. a £250,000 factory will be completed.
It is intended to develop the project into an independent industry, using local raw materials and employing local workers. All parts will be made within the organization. It is likely that small passenger vehicles, as well as goods models, will be made.
HAVANA ORDER ADVANCED wrrH three months to spare, Leyland VV Motors, Ltd.. has completed the 620 passenger chassis ordered by Autobuses Modernos, S.A.. Havana. Work has now begun on building 900 chassis for Argentina. • A hundred buses have still to be shipped to Cuba. All the chassis have left Leyland and some are at the works of Saunders-Roe (Anglesey), Ltd., where bodies are being fitted. The "Cape Sable " and the "Cape Franklin" sailed last week with 57 buses, The first left-hand-drive version of the Comet 90 chassis will be assembled this month. The vehicle will be sent to Cifkurt Ticaret ve Sanaa, T.S.A., Istanbul, as the first of a £500,000 order of 350 chassis placed within three days of the announcement of the new model.
• NEXT P.T.A. CONFERENCE 'THE Public Transport Association 1 will hold its next annual conference at Torquay from May 6-8, 1952.