Jeff .
. .
Paul
Dransfield and I had an article in Torque magazine issue 81, on our windscreen
replacements. The shipper that we used was:
Stan
Hilton
Partimex Trading International
Unit
14, Wilds Yard, Station Road
Cullompton, Devon
EX15
1BQ
England
telephone: (0) 1884 35522
Cost
for 2 windscreens: pickup from Pilkington Glass, crating to ensure the screens
would withstand the stresses of shipping, transportation in a container via ship
from Exeter to Toronto: 262 pounds.
Incidentally, sundry costs for brokers fees, warehouse fees, and Canadian
taxes: CDN$226.
Regards . . . Ron McLeod
1970 Marcos Mantis P8/5858
Hi
All,
I received a reply from
Marcos Heritage regarding glass pricing.
I have attached their
letter below.
I went with 5 fronts
and 10 rears as our estimate. I was happy to see that they do indeed carry the
Perspex rears.
It looks like the glass
converts to:
Rear Glass Screens $345.00
each
Front glass
$452.00 each
Rear Perspex
$145.00 each
It sounds as if we
would be facing an additional 3216.00 (worst case for 10 glass rears-see below)
to get them shipped to ONE destination here in the US. I think that we will also
have to pay some type of customs charges as well. I'm not sure what they would
run, but I would guess the customs would be a few hundred
dollars.
Then we would incur
more shipping to part them out and send them to their individual
destinations.
I guess we need to go
ahead and contact Pilkingtons (sp?) to get an estimate from them. Lee can you do
that?
Although, I'm not sure
how we would estimate shipping with this method. I guess we could have
Pilkingtons estimate it for shipping them to one US location as Rory
did.
I'm very disappointed
by what I have found so far as the shipping will add so much to it that it
probably will not be viable for most.
Although, there is
still the hope of getting Perspex rears from Hayes (which I am still pursuing)
and maybe getting someone in the US or Canada to do some front screens (which I
would like for Paul to pursue with the place in Canada once he gets some
time).
Please LMK what
everyone thinks.
Jeff
#8052
-----Original
Message-----
From: Pike
Associates [mailto:sales@...]
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 9:38 AM
To: DovenWolf@...
Subject: Re: Marcos
Glass
We can supply rear glass or perspex
( lexan / polycarbonate ) screens.
We carry perspex screens in stock at
£95.00 Each.
We can supply glass at the following
prices:
10 x Rear Glass
Screens ( Retail £350.00 ) £225.00
Each
5 x Front Glass
Screens ( Retail £375.00 ) £295.00
Each
In all honesty the perspex screens
are a definate fit because they are supplied oversize as opposed to the glass
rear screens.
Regarding the shipping, it would be
much cheaper to send the screens to one
destination.
We would have to pack them in
batches of 5. And you would be looking at around £200.00 to have each batch
of 5 screens professionally crated ( our shippers insist on this ) - in all
£600 for crating.
To ship the screens ( 3 boxes )
to North America is going to cost
in the region of £1500.00. The 3
boxes volumetrically work out at approx 840kg therefor making a very expensive
shipping cost.
I have quoted for "worst case
scenario " - i.e everybody wanting glass rear
screens.
To ship a quantity of perspex
screens would be a lot less - i.e to ship 5 perspex screens would cost £200
- £300.
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