Leyland Output 29 Per Cent. Up
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nURING the first 15 weeks of this
year, the output of Leyland vehicles increased by 29 per cent. compared with the corresponding period of 1948. Exports rose by 49 per cent, and there was some increase in deliveries to home users, Quantity production of the Leyland Farington double-deck body has begun. The first seven built were 8-ft. wide prototypes, but the line-production bodies are at present 7 ft. 6 ins. wide. Sheffield Corporation will take the first 64 and 60 will be built for Leeds. Later in the year, bulk production will start on 8-ft. models, 35 of which will go to Manchester and 15 to Southport.
INTERNATIONAL ACTION ON CHANNEL TUNNEL INTEREST in the Channel Tunnel iproject has been revived as the result of an Inter-Parliamentary Conference held in Paris on Monday. Representatives of the Parliaments of Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and Holland met at the Palaise de Luxembourg, and after the working session, a resolution to the effect that the Governments ot Great Britain and France should give immediate consideration to the project was carried unanimously.
It is estimated that the total cost would be about £60,000,000, and that of the pilot tunnel, which would precede the main construction, £10,000,000. The International Road Federation, which sponsored the Conference, emphasizes the need fey providing road facilities in addition to those for rail.
TALKING OF OVERHANG'
A A 40-TON lighter barge, 72 ft. long, PI. with a beam of 20 ft. 6' ins., was moved by road last week-end by G. Baker and Sons (B.T.C.), Ltd., from Poole, Dorset, to London Docks for shipment to Lagos, West Africa.
The barge was loaded on a 12-wheeled pneumatic-tyred trailer, 40 ft. long, and hauled by a Scammell tractor.