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• Austrian truck builder Steyr has completed the final stages of type approval for its range of trucks, and the first should appear on UK roads laters this month.
Steyr spokesman John Ecclestone says the company has already registered 10 Steyr trucks in the UK, and several models are now with bodybuilders.
Steyr will be offering 13tonne and 17-tonne rigids in this country, as well as a tractive unit plated at 38 tonnes,
Ecclestone says the company plans to sell around 250 vehicles in the UK this year. CI Leyland Daf is formally de nying industry rumours that it wants to buy out Steyr, but has told Commerical Motor that "discussions have been held on matters of mutual interest".
"We have had talks with Steyr as with a number of other people," says communications director Martin Hayes. However, Cliff Groves, managing director of Steyr UK, is also anxious to stop the takeover talk.
"The managing director of Daf in Austria made a statement which was either incorrect or misinterpreted, to the effect that such negotiations were going on. Talks on component deals are going on, but that is all", he told Commercial Motor.
ID The Steyr-Daimler-Puch combine has won a 263 million contract to supply medium offroad trucks to the US Army. Steyr will team up with Stewart & Stephenson of Texas to produce 2.5 and 5-tonne payload 4x4 prototypes for trial and assessment. The basic concept for these new models is the Steyr-Mil 12M18 which is already in use with the Austrian Army.