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Seddon six arrive down under
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• Little more than a month after managing director Vic Wilkes revealed that Seddon Atkinson is considering an attack on new right-hand-drive export markets (CM 2-8 February), the Lancashire truck builder has confirmed that it has already supplied six Strato tractive units to Australasian customers.
SA's sales and marketing director Bob Sculfor is touring Australia and New Zealand investigating their market poten
tial. The six Stratos (four sleeper and two day-cab models) are powered by air-to-air charge-cooled 10-litre Cummins engines rated at 247kW (325hp).
According to the company, Sculfor will be carrying out a detailed study of "what used to be good export territories".
In a recent interview with Commercial Motor, Wilkes confirmed that if Seddon Atkinson is to grow significantly "we have to look elsewhere beyond
the United Kingdom".
Seddon Atkinson believes that there is strong potential for the Strato in Australia, where it had its own production plant in the old Atkinson days.
Following Strato production delays due to the supply of incomplete component kits from Pegaso, Seddon Atkinson says that the problems have been ironed out and Strato assembly rates are now back to "acceptable" levels.