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ORDERS AND DELIVERIES BEDFORDS FOR EGYPT: Among the latest overseas

3rd May 1963, Page 65
3rd May 1963
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orders for Bedfords is one from the Inland Transport Authority, Egypt, for 200 SB bus and coach chassis. The chassis, powered by the Bedford 330-cu.-in. diesel engine, will be mounted with bus bodies built in Egypt. Shipments will start this month.

TEN MORE FOR COFF: Albion Motors has received an order for 10 more Chieftain Super-Six tipping chassis from Harry A. Cog Ltd., Ascot.

FIVE FOR PAPER: Convoys Ltd., of London, has ordered five Chieftain SuperSix tractive units from Albion Motors Ltd. They are to be used for transporting reels of paper.

BIG A.E.C. SALES TO EUROPE: Orders for more than 80 chassis and chassis sets worth, when built, £355.000 have been received by A.E.C. Ltd. from France, Belgium and Holland; A.E.C.'s French associate, Etablissements Wilk:tie has ordered another 45 Monarch chassis sets; N.V. AutoIndustrie Verheul has ordered 22 sets of A.E.C. Regal Mark VI running-units; and orders for 16 goods and passenger chassis have been placed by A.E.C. Continental S.A., A.E.C.'s company In Belgium.

REGENTS FOR ANGOLA: The Luanda Municipal Transport Authority has placed orders for five A.E.C. Regent Mark V double-decker bus chassis. They will be shipped to Angola in C.K.D. form and will be fitted with bodies built by Martins and Caetano of Liexoes.

GREAT YARMOUTH CHOOSE RELIANCE: Great Yarmouth Corporation Transport has ordered six A.E.C. Reliance singledecker buses. Designed for one-man operation, the buses will have 39-seater bodies 27/i. 6 in. long and 7 ft. 6 in wide.

MORE COMET BUSES FOR INDIA: An order for 200 Comet I6-ft. I-in.-wheelbase bus chassis has been received by Ashok Leyland Ltd., the Leyland subsidiary in Madras, from the Manarashtra State Road Transport Corporation. Bodywork is to be built by the Corporation's shops in Dapodi.

GREEK OPERATORS RECEIVING LEY LANDS: The principal public transport organization in Athens, A.S.P.A., is to place the first of 50 Leyland Worldmaster buses on city services next month. The Leyland-Albion agents in Athens, S. Phostiropoulos and C. Akritas, have recently imported 24 Albion Clydesdale and 20 Albion Victor six-cylinder models. Of the Clydesdales, six are operating as city service buses in Larisa, and six are on similar duties in Khania on the island of Crete. Ten Clydesdales and all the Victors are on intercity services.

Index Available THE index to Vol. 116 of The Commercial Motor (August 3L 1962. to January 25, 1963) is now available from Temple Press Limited, Bowling Green Lane, London, E.C.I. on receipt of 4d. to cover postage and packing.


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