Big orders for Fiats from Midland operators
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DR DERS for Fiat 619T and 584T 32-t on-gvw tractive nits and York semi-trailers worth £3/4m were announced )3/ Carmichael Trucks Ltd of Worcester, Fiat distributor or five Midland counties, at he Three Counties Show. Malvern, last week. M. Smith and Son of Worcester will shortly take delivery of 20 619Ts and 10 semisailers, and it is probable :hat the company will have icquired a fleet of 30 Fiats within five years.
Seaport Shipping 'Birmingham) Ltd, Walsall, will take delivery of 619Ts ind 684Ts at the rate of up to :wo vehicles a month over :wo years for runs to Italy Ind France; it is anticipated ;hat within this time the purrent fleet of eight vehicles will have been expanded to 0. of which about 75 per ent will be Fiats.
Vehicles to be operated by hese companies were dislayed at the Three Counties how and included a eaport 619T with a sleeper ab built by the Benson otor Body Co Ltd, a ember of the Carmichael roup. Another member of the group, J. H. Thorne and Son of Dorrington, Salop, built an aluminium horsebox, seen mounted on a Fiat 0M55 5-ton-gvw chassis and cattle truck of light alloy on an 0M75 7-ton-gvw machine.
The Smith company will soon be operating to the Continent for the first time (given that a permit is obtained) carrying fruit to Italy on 619Ts and engineering spares on the return trip. The make of vehicle employed by Seaport Shipping on a particular route will be largely determined by the service facilities in the countries visited. For this reason, DAFs will be used for runs to Holland, Belgium, Austria and Germany.
More VW service
SERVICING facilities are lobe extended for VW commercials over the next year when dealers holding a franchise for NSU and Audi will also be granted a similar one for VW, including the company's commercial vehicles