British manufacturers go after European sales
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TWO of Britain's leading bus and coach builders Leyland and Plaxtons are mounting sales attacks on the mainland European marker.
Leyland Bus is finalising plans to launch its Lynx single-deck city bus and Tiger coach chassis into Belgium. • Once it has established the models in Belgium, it hopes to 'widen its market in West. Europe: .
Left-hand-drive examp.les of Lynx and Tiger were shown at last week's Kortrijk Show (see p22) although neither was built to Belgian Specifications.
The first Belgian Lynx demonstrator will he on the road next year.
Tigers could be offered to suit • both Dutch and Belgian requirements with bodies by Van Hool, Jonckheere, Berkhof or LAG.
'A left-hand-drive Tiger 245 with Van Hool coachwork, destined for use as a demonstrator. in the Middle East, was shown at Kortrijk. Plaxtons is to re-enter the Dutch coach market with selected models from its Paramount range of coach bodies.
It hopes to appoint a Dutch dealer and be able toannounce that it has sold :a least one vehicle into the Netherlands from its stand at Korn*.
. Initially, the selection for the._ Netherlands will consist of 12m Paramount 3200. 3500 and 3500 Luxury bodies on rear-engined Daf SB 2305 DliS or SB 3000 chassis.
The models are offered in a series of packaged specifications designed to be of in-. retest to 1)utch operators. Plaxtons says its -Dutch models will he competitive in price.
The company hopes to reverse the imbalance between coach body .imports front the Netherlands to Britain from manufacturers such as .ticrkhof and Bova.