IN BRIEF
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• In the last twelve months TNT UK has doubled its weekly turnover from £2 million to £4 million and it has increased its workforce from 3,700 (in January 1986) to 5,500.
The company is part of the TNT Worldwide Transportation Group, which has just announced a 42% increase in profits in its first half year, based on an 8.3% rise in turnover across its global operations for the six months to December 1986. Profit for the full year is forecast to be up on 1985/86.
• Seddon Atkinson has sold over 200 of its 16tonne GVW 2-11 rigid trucks during the five months the model has been in full production.
Some 60% of all 2-11s sold have been specified with the 128kW (173hp) Perkins Phaser 180Ti engine, while more than half have been ordered with a 5.6m wheelbase.
Own-account fleets are the bulk of the buyers, with particularly high demand coming from oil and brewing companies.
• Scalia built a record 25,515 trucks and 3,258 buses last year, a 12% increase over 1985 and a 4% rise over the previous production record set in 1980.
Some 92% of the company's production was exported from Sweden and now Scania claims to be Europe's third largest producer of heavy trucks.
Supply figures showed gains in all European markets except in Great Britain, although Scania's UK market share still improved from 9.3 to 9.5% in a declining market.
Rear axle assembly for Scania trucks and buses is being relocated from the truck chassis plant in Sodertalje to Scania's Falum workshop in the north of Sweden where front axles are already produced.