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PARK ROYAL MAKES NEW ALLIANCES
AN agreement• has been reached by Park Royal Coachworks, Ltd., Abbey Road, Park Royal, N.W.I0, whereby within the territories of India. Ceylon and Burma, the Hyderabad Allwyn Metal Works, Ltd., will be the sole representative of the Park Royal concern, and will manufacture and distribute bus bodies and parts of Park Royal design.
The agreement provides for the free use of patents of either compaoy, relating to bus-body production. by the other, and will allow the Hyderabad concern to draw freely on the accumulated experience of Park Royal Coachworks, Ltd., in this field. Provision is also made for the training of technical personnel from India.
The Hyderabad Allwyn Metal Works, Ltd., in which Park Royal Coachworks, Ltd., is acquiring a substantial shareholding, will start bodybuilding with a valuable order for a large number of all-steel bodies for single-deck buses for H.E.H. The Nizam's State Railway.
A further 135 vehicles with Park Royal bodies are now on order from England for H.E.H. The Nizam's State Railway.
The Park Royal concern has a similar agreement with a South African company, B.M.S., Ltd., Johannesburg, and its policy is to become associated with manufacturers in various parts of the world.
An arrangement between the Park Royal company and 3. Brockhouse and Co., Ltd., is also announced. Park Royal bodies are to be made in Scotland in a new factory to be erected for the purpose by the Brockhouse Organization at its works at Clydebank, Glasgow. Production is expected to begin towards the end of 1947 and it is hoped to build 400-500 bodies in 1948.
MR. EDEN VISITS LOCKHEED FACTORY
QN a tour of his constituency last week, Mr. Anthony Eden, M.P. for Leamington and Warwick, visited Automotive Products Co., Ltd., Leamingtnn Spa, the largest factory in his constituency. He was conducted round the works by Mr. D. T. Brock, governing director, and took great interest in the production of Lockheed hydraulic brakes, Borg and Beck clutches, and other compon.mts.
At the close of his tour he was pre sented with a memento of his visit by Miss P. Wilson, who was elected as Miss Lockheed" for 1946.