Monopoly Bill Results Unpredictable
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IT was impossible to predict the longI term consequences of proposed legislation on restrictive practices, said Mr. E. Powell, director of Chloride Batteries, Ltd., in opening the •Exide service agents' 27th annual convention at Bournemouth last week.
His company would do all they could to maintain stability in the battery industry and would make no changes unless compelled to do so. He saw no reason why the new legislation should Effect the relationship between Exide and service agents. He added that Exide policy was to maintain the highest quality, and hold or reduce prices.
The system of service agents was far less advanced in Canada and the U.S.A. than in Britain, said Mr. C. G. F. Pritchett, director and chief engineer, at the annual dinner. He had recently returned from a tour of North America, where he found that battery makers had to rely to a much greater extent than in Britain upon direct sales to customers.
OBITUARY
Vregret to record the deaths of -ORD PERRY. MR. W. T. WILKINSON, MR, R. B. ASKEW and MR. KENNEI11 R. YOUNG.
Lord Perry held the chairmanship of the Ford Motor Co.. Ltd., for 20 years until 1948. He began his association with the Ford concern in 1905 and in 1909 formed the Ford Motor Co. (England), Ltd. He also reorganized Ford interests on the Continent and was chairman of the associated concerns in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Holland. Italy, Spain and Sweden. He was 78.
Mr. Wilkinson was secretary and accountant of United Service Transport Co., Ltd., and their subsidiaries.
Mr. Askew was managing director of the Leeds Auto-Express Engineering and Transport Co., Ltd. He was 53.
Mr. Young, who was 49, was managing director of Young and Sons Transport, Ltd., Colchester.
Rs. 90m. BUS PLAN
ANexpansion programme involving the expenditure of Rs. 90m. has been drawn up by the Bombay State Transport Corporation. Eight hundred buses are to be added to the present fleet of 32,000 vehicles. Under the States Reorganization Bill, the corporation is likely to be wound up by October 1. but it is hoped that successor States will continue the plan.
FOREIGN BUS OFFERS
QEVERAL foreign powers have J.-1 offered the Ceylon Government various types of bus to be used when nationalization takes place, but the Government are not in a position to accept because of the need for standardization. They may ask for the kinds of vehicle they require to he supplied to them under the Colombo Plan.