More lorries for African famine relief
29th June 1985, Page 7
29th June 1985
Page 7
Page 7, 29th June 1985
— More lorries for African famine relief
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EUROPEAN truck manufacturers are responding to the urgent need for famine relief vehicles to be sent to Africa, and Leyland has just shipped out 60 vehicles to he used by the Save the Children Fund.
The Leylands, worth about Lim, were shipped from Southampton last Sunday, only 12 days after the order was announced.
And Mercedes-Benz UK is supplying 15 lorries through the Band Aid relief project. Four 11-tonne four-wheel drive vehicles with bodies built by Buckinghamshirebased Reynolds Boughton have already been shipped. Mercedes agents in Africa are geared up to provide spares and service back-up.