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New Address: Engine and Special Equipment Operations, Ford Motor Co. Ltd., is now located at 1 Ley Street, Ilford, Essex (tel.: Ilford 3388).
&amine! Semi-trailers for Australia: Twenty-four Scammell MU-type automaticcoupling semi-trailer units of 8-ton capacity have been ordered by Mechanical Horse Australasia Pty. Ltd.
Polypeneo Distributor: Polypenco Ltd., manufacturer of engineering industrial plastics, has appointed Kenneth Forbes (,Southern) Ltd., Copthorne Road, Felbridge, East Grinstead, Sussex (phone: East Grinstead 23540), as distributor for standard stock shapes in southern England.
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Trailers for Export: A total of 25 Scammell semi-trailers have been ordered by McCairns Motors Ltd., of Dublin, for customers in Eire. The order is made up of ten, 10 ton, 20 ft. by 8 ft,: six 10 ton. 16 ft. by 8 ft.; eight 12 ton, 7 ft. 2 in, wide: and one 30 ft by 8 ft. 15 ion Fourtrak. The latter has fifth-wheel coupling and the other units are with MH type automatic coupling; they will all be shipped c.k.d.
Leyland on Telex in Germany: Telex has been installed at the Aschaffenburg premises of Deutsche Leyland GMBH, the German offices for the special products division of the Leyland Motor Corporation. The number is 4188898 and the answer-back code is LEMO D.