JAPANESE GROUP WINS LOS ANGELES RAIL CAR ORDER
Sumitomo Corp <SUMT.T> and <Nippon Sharyo
Ltd> have won a joint order for 54 railway cars worth 69.60 mln
dlrs from California's Los Angeles County Transportation
Commission, a Nippon Sharyo spokesman said.
    He told Reuters components totalling 20 pct of the value of
the articulated light rail vehicles will be U.S.-made, and that
delivery is due between early 1989 and early 1990.
    The cars will be used for a Long Beach to Los Angeles
service due to start in May 1989.
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