Coach firm anticipates EEC entry
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• So certain is a British coach company that the UK will be joining the Common Market that it has already started to co-operate closely with a Belgian company. Anston Commercial Ltd, of Anston, near Sheffield, a member of the Kirkby organization, has just signed a contract worth £250,000 for more than 65 Seddon chassis. The bodies are to be supplied by two British coach builders, and a Belgian company, Carrosserie Jonckheere, of
Roeslare.
Returning from Belgium last week, Mr S. Johnson, sales director of Anston Commercial, said "We have an eye to the Common Market and we feel that this is the time to ensure that we have a foothold in Europe."
The Belgian bodies are more expensive, largely owing to import duty, but this of course is expected to be reduced should Britain join the EEC.