Orders and Deliveries
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ANOTHER LEOPARD: Ellen Smith (Tours), Ltd., Rochdale, have ordered another Leyland Leopard coach chassis. HAMPSHIRE EIGHTS: I. H. Sparshati and Sons, Ltd., Southampton, are to supply eight Leyland Octopus tippers to Hampshire County Council. They will have Sparshatt 13-cu.-yd. insulated bodies. INDIAN ENGINES: Kirloskar Pneumatic Co., Ltd., Poona, have placed a repeat order with Ashok Leyland, Ltd„ for 0.350 oil engines. This latest order is for 200 units.
EXPLOSIVE CHIEFTAINS: Ltd., have ordered six Albion Chieftain vans for explosives haulage. A. C. Penman, Ltd., Dumfries, are to build the bodies.
PERTH WORLDMASTERS : A E70,000 contract for 20 Worldmaster buses has been gained by Leyland Motors, Ltd. The order has been placed by the Metropolitan Passenger Transport Trust, Perth, Western Australia, and the vehicles will have 125b.h.p. engines and Pneumo-Cyclic fourspeed gearboxes. Because of the heavy corrosive action Perth water has on aluminium, all engine-cooling components will be of cast iron.
CHEMICAL TANKERS: Two Leyland Octopus chemical tankers have been ordered by British Celanese, Ltd., Spandon. They will have five-compartment, 3.500-gal. stainless-steel tanks built by Andrews Bros. (Bristol), Ltd., Liverpool. DRINKA PINTA: The Milk Marketing Board has ordered 22 Albion Clydesdale
chassis worth£70,000, Six of these are tractive units for use with 2.500-gal. tank semi-trailers, arid the other chassis will be mounted with 1,750-gal, tanks for collecting milk in bulk from farms. Another new Albion milk tanker is that placed in service last week by the Aberdeen and District Milk Marketing Board. This, too, is engaged on bulk collection and has a Clydesdale chassis. The 1.750-gal. stainless-steel tank was built by W. P. Butterfield (Engineers), Ltd.
DEMAND FOR NUBIANS: The Australian Department of Civil Aviation has placed a repeat order for 10 Thornycroft "Nubian" 6 x 6 chassis which are to be the basis for fire crash tenders. Bodywork and equipment will be supplied by Wormald Bros. (Vic.) Pty., Ltd. Other orders for "Nubian" chassis are five for the British War Office, five for Shannon Airport, Eire, and five for the Iraqi Air Force. Recent deliveries of "Nubian" crash tenders include four to Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, and 10 to the Danish Air Force.