Cougar production is set to increase
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• Alternative Chassis Engineering is planning to step up production of its new low-floor Cougar chassis, with a target for 50 units by the beginning of next year.
The Yorkshire-based firm is negotiating with two extra bodybuilders, which it hopes will body the 'Cougar alongside Wadham Stringer and Willowbrook (CM 1-7 November 1990).
ACE engineering director Keith Ward is trying to tempt other bodybuilders to take the Cougar too, in a bid to "enhance the scope".
Only two Cougars have been produced since its launch at Expo Coach in October, but ACE says it could produce two complete jig-built chassis a day.
By April, Ward hopes to have started series production. He says that if he reaches his target of 50 units by the beginning of next year he will have to take on more staff.
People's Provincial in Hampshire, which took the first Wadham Stringer-bodied Cougar, says it will consider taking on more Cougars for its replacement programme which is due to start at the end of this year.
El See page 28 for a full roadtest of the Wadham Stringerbodied Cougar 5.