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DEMANDS from Poland have contributed to the orders totalling more than £500,000 in value which GUY Motors, Ltd., have received during the past few weeks. Motoimport, the Polish purchasing organization, require 11 Invincible sixwheeled tippers. This model was exhibited at the Poznan Trade Fair in June.
Johannesburg Municipal Transport have ordered another 20 double-deckers with Rolls-Royce engines. These buses can carry 105 passengers. Other vehicles are to be supplied to Australia, Nigeria, Portuguese East Africa, Turkey, Hong Kong, Portugal, Belgium and Holland.
Much of the business is represented by bus replacements for the China Bus Co., _I-long Kong, Lagos Municipal Transport and South African Railways. Portuguese East African Railways require Invincible lorries.
During recent months, Mr. G. Harris, Guy export sales director, and his colleagues have travelled abroad extensively.
CHAMPION DRIVER GOES TO FRANCE
14R. C. DAINES who, as reported last 1V1 week, is the Lorry Driver of the Year for 1959-1960, is going to France as the guest of the B.M.C. Drivers' Club to compete in the International Lorry Driver Championship to be held at Angers on Sunday, under the auspices' of Les Amis des Routiers. He will drive the Austin 3-ton vehicle belonging to his employers Fred Myers, Ltd., Windsor, in which he competed at Bramcote a fortnight ago.