NCL orders 3,306 trailers
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• Within recent weeks three British trailer manufacturers have received orders from National Carriers Ltd., the former BR sundries company, for a total of 3,306 semi-trailers.
The largest order numerically is for 1,702 Scammells with automatic couplings, all of them in the 5-ton and 12-ton ranges. Hands Trailers Ltd. has been asked to supply 901 trailers, plus 1,001 small B-type automatic couplings and 644 of the larger Autosafe version, these couplings being for use by other manufacturers building trailers to NCL order.
The Scammell trailers are of 20ft and 25ft length and the Hands models are 16ft 5-tonners, 20ft 5-tonners (designed for matched operation with the Ford 0300 tractive unit developed faintly with Hands), 20ft 12-tonners and 30ft 12-tonners.
The third order is for 730 trailers ranging from 18-32 tons gross to be built by HWP Engineering Ltd. This order is worth.
£330,000. • In each case the smaller trailers will be for local work with platform or boxvan bodies, while the larger trailers will be principally for container work.