Crisis hits Him importer
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• HCV, for years the UK's sole Hino truck distributor, has gone into receivership — but a new owner for the Warringtonbased company is expected to be announced within days.
HCV, which distributes for Dublin-based Hino assembler Harris, has orders worth more than E750,000.
It is still trading and is being sold as a going concern by the administrative receiver, Hewson and Lyon. Harris, which is setting up its own UK parts and distribufion factory in Catterick, Yorkshire, says the sale will not affect its links with the company or the distribution of Hino trucks in Britain.
HCV will continue as a major Hino agent, says Fitzgerald, who plans to announce further dealers in the UK next month. These will form a network centred on the Catterick plant.
HCV is currently distributing three Him models assembled by Harris. These are the 6x4 FS271 tipper chassis, the 8x4 FY275 tipper chassis and the 4x2 SH283 tractive unit. Five others being assembled at Catterick are due for type approval. They are: a lightweight sixwheel tipper, and 11, 12, 13 and 17-tonne rigids. A rearengined midibus is under consideration.
Brendan Fitzgerald of Harris is keen to play down sugges tions that the sale will affect Hino availability in the UK. "The company has probably gone through a bad patch, but they will have a new owner and we would hope to continue with them," he says.
Only two redundancies are expected at HCV.
HCV was at the forefront of Hino's launch into the UK in 1982, when Commercial Motor tested its HE 336E tractor unit (CM 3 April 1982).