Production is Booming
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MEWS of encouraging increases in
demand at home and abroad has been given by three major chassis manufacturers. Albion Motors Ltd. has had domestic and overseas orders during the first six months of this year amounting to double the comparable figures for 1962, and in the autumn the company is expected to announce plans for a major expansion programme. Demand has meant a lengthening of delivery periods for most models, to dates around the end of the year, and a company spokesman has said that the increase in orders is the biggest for five years.
The Leyland Group has announced that 1512 sales of Leyland and Albion goods vehicles and bus chassis for the first six months of 1963 show a 58-2 per cent increase for home market orders, compared with the same period of last year, while the rise in export orders is 80-9 per cent. Most marked is an increase of more than 137 per cent in export orders for heavy goods chassis.
Meanwhile, Vauxhall Motors Ltd. announces that Bedford lorry output is at a new record level of 300 units daily; the production of light vans in the period January-June totalled 9,306 and of lorries and bus chassis, 32,725.