Orders and Deliveries
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THIRTY MORE ORDERED: A further 30 A.E.C. Regent Mk. V double-decker buses have been ordered by Bradford City Transport, making a total of 70 of this model ordered by the undertaking in the past year. M.C.W. bodywork has again been specified.
LANCS ORDERS FOR A.E.C.: Fifteen A.E.C. Reliance 36-ft.-long chassis have been ordered by operators in Lancashire. Lancashire Motor Traders, Ltd., who operate four coaching concerns, have placed contracts for eight, four Of the 470 version and four 590 models. Ribblesdate Couch ways, Ltd.. Black burn, have ordered four more 470 models (which will be fitted with Duple bodies) and another three 36-footers have been ordered by J. Abbott and Sons (Blackpool), Ltd.
CHASSIS FOR CRANES: An order worth £80,000 for 50 of their new Chieftain Super Six 7-tonner chassis has been placed with Albion Motors, Ltd., by the Lambert Engineering Co. (Glasgow), Ltd. The chassis wilt be used as the basis for Lambert's Hydrocon Highlander 6-ton mobile crane and will have wheelbases of 10 ft. 3 in. They will be powered by Leyland 0.370 Power-Plus diesel engines.
FOR FINLAND AND PAKISTAN: Helsinki Municipality have ordered 40 Leyland Royal Tiger Cub LRTC1.1 models, and the West Pakistan Road Transport Board have ordered a further 35 Leyland Titan PD3.4 double-decker chassis. The Titans will be shipped in crated form and assembled by the Leyland Group agents in Lahore, James Finlay and Co., Ltd. The two orders are worth £240,000.
FOR OVERSEAS FIRES: Four A.E.C. Monarch chassis have been ordered for eventual duty overseas as fire appliances. Two will be fitted with fire-fighting equipment by Fire Armour, Ltd., and one of them will go to Northern Rhodesia and the other, a water tender, fitted with a 1,300gallon water tank and pumping equipment, will go into service in Bermuda. The other two will be built as appliances with turntable ladders by Merryweather and Sons, Ltd., for the Hong Kong Fire Brigade.