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MAN/Daimler Benz enter the turbine race
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MAN and Daimler-Benz are to install a gas turbine engine in a vehicle for manufacturers' appraisal in Germany next week. This was revealed at a press conference in London on Tuesday by Mr Otto Voisard, md of MAN's commercial vehicle division in Germany. The engine is rated at 350400 bhp and MAN claims to have solved the heat exchanger seal problems. The engine is a twinshaft turbine.
Mr Voisard said that despite the energy crisis they had pressed ahead with the development, although their main activity now was to concentrate on the develop ment of material and components for the turbine, rather than engine production.
Mr L. Baxter, a director of MAN Concessionaires (GB) Ltd, said that the UK market for eight-wheelers next year would be between 2,000 and 2,400 units, an increase of about 37 per cent on this year's figure of which he expected MAN to get about 200 haulage units. He thought they would sell a similar number of three-axle tippers. Later he told CM that this figure included both the domestic and re-export market. Mr Baxter said that MAN recognized Scammell as the biggest selling eight-wheeler, and he expected that MAN penetration in this market would be mainly at the expense of two other British manufacturers.
MAN has established 21 dealers in the UK since it began operations on January 11; another eight will be added to complete the network by the end of this year. MAN is to hold a stock of two replacement engine units in Britain, 20 units are held in Germany where the company has 138 depots. A _ MAN director said that the cost of a replacement MAN engine in the UK is the equivalent of £1,500, but import taxes and other duties bring the cost to almost £2,000 before labour charges are applied. The replacement engine takes 19 man-hours to fit in a tractive unit.
Mr Baxter said that MAN was now looking at the British psv market and would be happy to work with a British coachbuilder on integral construction, but this is not seen as an immediate part of the company's development.
Next month MAN will move its UK main operation from Chiswick, West London, to Bradford, and new vehicles will be imported through East Coast ports.