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aatain is Europe's Biggest Exporter

EAT BRITAIN exported more ommercial vehicles than any other aean motor manufacturing nation. Michael Raikes, export director of !s, Ltd., speaking on behalf of the r industry, told a Press conference nsterdam on Tuesday, a year's shipments of 112,600 cornal vehicles were about 10 per cent. r than those of Western Germany, in's nearest rival, and three times

etthan those of France. More a fifth of Britain's exports in the nine months of last year went to pe.

stressed the advanced standard of h commercial-vehicle engineering said that testing facilities available akers were the finest in Europe. fish commercial vehicles would

• increasingly from the tariff effect impetitive prices when the European non Market got into its stride, unless in's concept of a wider trading assoon of nations eventually materialized. rtheless. British vehicles would withall competition for a long time to

c United Kingdom earnestly wished trticipate in a European Free Trade . British commercial-vehicle mannrers had nothing to fear from their ; under fair trading conditions, either Hope or in the domestic market. '

EYLON TRANSPORT BOARD TO BE INVESTIGATED working of the Ceylon Transport card is to be investigated by a threeministerial sub-committee. They inquire, among other things, into the !rs vested in the board by the analization Act, the salaries of senior a-s, changes in staff, and the case out by the board for standardizapf fares.

te Colombo Municipality, who cornLed recently that they were running :tybuses at a loss while C.T.B. buses away the cream of the traffic, been advised by the Minister of onalized Services to sell their trolleys. He has undertaken to find buyers ey agree, pointing out that it would heaper to run oil-engined buses.

F.ATH OF MIL HARRY AUSTIN E regret to announce the death last Sunday of MR. HARRY AUSTIN. her of the late Lord Austin of Longge, with whom he spent his entire es in the motor industry. When Mr. aert Austin (later Lord Austin) ided his own car factory in 1906, Mr. ry Austin became superintendent of chassis shop, a post which he still at his death at the age of 82.

RECORDS CHECK ON At )M1TTING nine charges of failing to ensure that a driver kept proper rds, William Marsden and Son, Ltd.. hers, Sheffield, were fined a total of at Sheffield on Monday. The charges wed a check by examiners on the It Doncaster.

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