Perkins Options for Commer 11-and 2-tonners
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TN addition to the new heavy-goods models described on pages 155-159, Commer Cars, Ltd., announce today that the Perkins 4.203 57-b.h.p. diesel engine is now offered as optional equipment in their Walk-Thru Ifand 2-ton vehicles, this unit already being available in 3-ton models. The 11-ton van with 4.203 engine costs £998, the 2-ton van being listed at £1,046.
AC. FOR LEYLANDS
THE standard specification of all Leyland passenger vehicles will in future include C.A.V. AC. generating equipment. At present this consists of an A.C. generator, type 724/2, with a separate rectifier, type RUS.6, but when production permits, a generator with built-in rectifying diodes, type 724/4, will be employed.
JANUARY PRODUCTION, REGISTRATIONS AND EXPORT
GOODS vehicles (including agricultural 1,-1 vans and lorries) registered for the first time during January, 1962, numbered 18,791, a drop of more than 2,000 compared with the January, 1961, figure of 20,822.
The number of goods vehicles produced in the first month of the present year was 32,190 (weekly average 8,048). The figure of production for passenger vehicles (including motorbuses and trolleybuses) was 1,201 (weekly average 300). These figures are at a tower level than those for the previous year, the total number of commercial vehicles produced in January, 1961, being 36,579.
Exports of goods vehicles for January, 1962 (12,469) were also down on last year's figures (16.393).