Orders and Deliveries A.E.C. Units ordered: Steels Engineering Products, Ltd.,
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Sunderland, have ordered 80 engines and gearboxes of various types, front axles and auxiliary gearboxes from A.E.C., Ltd., for use in Coles mobile crane chassis. The order is worth £125,000. Another repeat order for A.E.C. engines is one for 50 AV275 power units by Allis Chalmers (Great Britain), Ltd. The engines will be fitted in the Allis Chalmers BTL 12 front end loader.
Rumanian Oilfields Trucks: Leyland Super Hippo EH.8BL models worth £40,000 hare been ordered for the Rumanian Ministry of Oil and Chemicals. Three-man cabs, power-driven winches and heavy-duty tyres will be incorporated.
Deliveries to Total: An order for 10 A.E.C. vehicles from the Total Oil Co., of South Africa, includes Mandator tractive units and Mammoth Major sixand eightwheelers.
Pakistan Sherpas: Six Scommell Sherpa dump tracks have been ordered by the East Pakistan Directorate of Supply for work on civil engineering contracts.
Municipalities order Leylands: Glasgow Corporation has ordered 150 Leyland Atlantean rear-engined double-decker bus chassis and Bury Corporation has ordered 15 of the same chassis with MetroCammell-Weymann bodies. Municipal orders for Leyland Titan PD2 doubledeckers include one for 16 by Halifax Transport Department, one for 12 by Blackburn Corporation and one for eight by Warrington Corporation: Comets again to Punjab: A further 26 Leyland Comet bus chassis have been ordered by Punjab Roadways from As/0k Leyland, Ltd.
No Trimming, No Membership
FOLLOWING a dispute about the trimming of trees, Mexborough and Swinton Traction Co., Ltd., have decided to resign from the road safety committee of Swinton U.D.C. The bus company 'has given as the reason for withdrawal their "long-standing but abortive" request to the council to trim back overhanging branches of trees in Rockery Valley roads.
The request was made, stated the company, in the interests of road safety and to prevent damage to vehicles and the risk of injury to passengers.
The statement went on: "The council state the trees have already been cut back to a safe and reasonable condition, but the company say that no less than 54 trees constitute a hazard."
TRIPLEX PROFITS LOWER DRE-TAX profits of Triplex Holdings.
Ltd„ the safety-glass and lightengineering group, dropped to 0,006.736 for the year ended June 30, last, compared with £1,744,547 for the previous financial year. The dividend has been reduced from 15 to 121 per cent.