£220,000 Orders in Three Weeks
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ORDERS totalling more than £220,000 for singleand double-deck buses have been received by Leyland Motors. Ltd., during the past three weeks or so. They have come from municipalities and bus companies and include a further order for 24 Atlantean chassis from Ribble Motor Services, Ltd. The Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd., have ordered another 19 Atlanteans and 12 underfloorengined PSUC1.2 Tiger Cub singledeckers.
A second heavy-duty truck has been ordered by the Chinese National Transport Machinery Import Corporation for trial purposes. The vehicle is a Super Hippo three-axled tractor powered by a 125 b.h.p. 0.600 oil engine. A 30-ft.-long 25-30-ton platform semi-trailer is being made by Dyson.
Orders for a fleet of heavy-duty lorries and special vehicles for the carriage of goods and passengers have been placed with Leyland and Albion Motors, Ltd, The orders, valued at more than £50,000, have been placed on behalf of the Government Transport Department of Ghana, by the Crown Agents.
GRANT FOR BROILER TRAFFIC
AGROUP of broiler-chicken rearers in the Wiveliscombe area, with a production target in six months' time of 30,000 per week, would need special insulated vans to transport their goods to London. Mr. S. W. Nelson, Western Licensing Authority, was told this at Taunton when the Tone Vale Transport Co. applied to increase their fleet of 16 vehicles by four.
The company had been asked to transport the broilers to the London market and carry feeding stuffs required by the producers. Mr. P. J. Langdon, who with his brother had started Tone Vale Transport in 1955, said he was also a director of an egg-packing concern and had a controlling interest in another haulage business. Transport was stretched to the limit, he said.
A number of mid-Somerset hauliers. British Road Services and British Railways objected. but Mr. Nelson granted three vehicles.
STILT ROAD FOR MANCHESTER
PAA ROADWAY on stilts, built 22 ft. above the ground in the form of a multi-span bridge, is planned for Manchester. The project has been drawn up by the town planning committee and is part of a £6m. scheme. The road will be 1,200 yd. long, stretching across Hulmc and Chorlton-on-Medlock, and will by-pass part of the city.
• COMPULSORY WINDING-UP
AN order for the compulsory windingup of Oak Hill Transport Co., Ltd., was made by Mr. Justice Roxburgh in the Chancery Division on Monday. It was made on the petition of Shell-Mex and 13.13., Ltd.. judgment creditors for £556.
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