STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scania (>> Scania AB) has received an order for 1,500 trucks from British transport companies Eddie Stobart (>> Stobart Group Ltd) and A.W. Jenkinson Forest Products, the Swedish truck maker said on Sunday.

The order, Scania's biggest in Britain ever, will be filled over two years and follows a new joint-procurement agreement between Scania and the two companies, Scania said in a statement. http://r.reuters.com/muw85v

The trucks adhere to the new Euro 6 exhaust emission standard, which became compulsory for all new trucks in the European Union on Dec 31 2013.

Scania, majority owned by Germany's Volkswagen (>> Volkswagen AG), received orders for 59,405 trucks in total during the first nine months of 2013.

(Reporting by Sven Nordenstam, editing by William Hardy)

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