ORDERS AND DELIVERIES FOR SUGAR ESTATES: Taskers of Andover (1932)
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Ltd. has received an order for 25 12-ton straight-frame semi-trailers through Doger de Speville, Mauritius, who has also ordered 20 sets of running gear for locally built 14-ton straight-frame semitrailers. All 45 units will be used on sugar haulage. Other Taskers orders include 24 sets of trailer components by McGee's Stores Ltd., Ardee, for assembly in Ireland, and John Neasham Ltd., Darlington, has ordered eight 6-ton straight-frame semitrailers for Calders (Northern) Ltd.
BIG INDIAN BUS ORDERS: Ashok Leyland Ltd., Madras, has received orders for almost 700 Leyland Comet bus chassis worth about £1.5 m. The largest is from Guierat State Road Transport Corporation with an order for 260 with Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport following closely with a contract for 128. Other orders are from Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking (100), Rajasthan Roadways (WO), Kerala State Transport (40), Punjab Roadways (40), Himachal Pradesh Government Transport (6), and the newly formed Madhya Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (5).
SWISS ORDER MANDATOR: A.E.C. Ltd. has received orders from Switzerland for 24 Mandator Mark Vs. H. Kleiner and Co., Zurich, A.E.C.'s distributors in Switzerland. has ordered the vehicles, four of which will be shipped to A.E.C.'s associate company in Belgium, A.E.C. Continental S.A_ for fitting with Monocontrol semiautomatic transmission and Collectomatic refuse collecting bodies. Four of the Mandators are to be operated with independent trailers and another six will be tractive units.
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MORE A.E.C. MIXERS: Pre-Mixed Concrete (Rotherhithe) Ltd. has ordered three more A.E.C. Marshal 6 x 4 chassis which will be fitted with 6-cu.-yd. concrete mixers.
GRAVEL FLEET GOES UP: An order for 20 Albion Chieftain Super Six 7-ton tipping chassis by the Leyland Leicester agents, Ford and Slater Ltd., has brought the number ordered by them since October to 100. They will join the fleet of the Hoveringham Gravel Company Ltd., Notts. which operates all its vehicles under contract-hire through Ford and Slater. Steel bodies and tipping gear by Edbro-B and E. Tippers Ltd., Bolton, are specified.
AIRLINE TO INCREASE GROUND FLEET: Four Comet coaches and five Albion Claymore 5-ton vans ordered from Leyland by Pakistan International Airline Corporation will be used to transport' passengers and baggage between Karachi airport and city terminals. The £15,000 order was placed through James Finlay and Co. Ltd., Karachi.