SELNEC buys MetroScanias
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• Conservative MP Mr R. Redmond (Bolton West), who made a bitter attack on SELNEC PTE for buying foreign buses at a time when more than one million people are out of work—many in Lancashire—has been told by the PTE there is no danger of British jobs being lost as a consequence.
A SELNEC spokesman told CM this week that the authority bought some 250 double-deck buses every year. It was committed to British Leyland for these vehicles which formed about 90 per cent of SELNEC's fleet of 2,500.
The PTA had agreed to buy single-deckers for evaluation to obtain information on which to base its decision on future purchases. These included Leylands. Metro-Scanias and, possibly, Seddons. The Metro-Scania was 70 per cent British-built.
Mr G. A. Harrison, director-general of SELNEC, commented: "So far as the Metro-Scania is concerned, we consider there is a duty to examine the alternative. We must therefore gain operating experience of these vehicles on a small scale before we can come to any decision ."