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23rd August 1946, Page 24
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BRITISH COMMERCIAL-VEHICLE MAKERS TRIPLE EXPORTS BRITAINS export trade in commercial vehicles has tripled itself in the past 12 months. The total of new commercial vehicles exported in June of this year was 3,220, of a value of £1,278,740, against a monthly average of 1,190 (£323,597) in 1938. In the six months ended June, 1946, 19,434 new commercial motors, worth £7,460,274, were exported.

New general-haulage tractors numbering 287 (£158,601) were exported in June of this year, compared with an average of 99 (£15,299) per month in 1938. Exports of new general-haulage tractors for the first six months of this year total 465 (£340,755).

No figures are available for the numbers of agricultural tractors exported, but the value rose from a monthly average of £51,796 in 19.8 to £190,605 in June of this year. Exports of agricultural tractors in the first half of the year brought Britain £1,319,480.

Extensive export business is also being done in parts and accessories.

By comparison with our exports, imports of vehicles and parts are negligible.

These figures for exports are even more interesting when compared with production statistics issued by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. In June of this year 13,161 commercial vehicles were produced, against a computed monthly average of 9,000 last year, and a total of 69,079 manufactured in the first six months of 1946. Of June's output, 771 were motorbuses and trolleybuses, and 4,325 vehicles of this type were built in the first half of the year.

The difference between the number produced and the number exported is not necessarily the total available for home service, as many of the vehicles built may have been awaiting shipping.

A NUMBER LIGHTING CONCESSION

ONJuly 28. 1941, the Minister made the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations, 1941, which provided that as from October 1, 1942, every mechanically propelled vehicle should comply with certain specified requirements as to the exhibition and illumination of its identification marks. This was later amended by the substitution of October 1, 1946, for the first date. Now, by the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1946, dated August 2, the date has again been altered to October 1, 1947.

AUSTIN COMPANY CONVERTS BOILERS TO OIL THE Austin Motor Co., Ltd., is doing its best to reduce the consumption of coal, and has decided to convert its seven auxiliary Lancashire boilers to oil. Their present total steaming capacity is in the region of 11 cwt. per hour, and it is estimated that the amount -of coal saved during the remainder of the winter, from the time of the changeover in December, will equal the monthly domestic ration for 10,000 homes. CONCESSION TO COMBINE HARVESTERS TO facilitate the movement by road of land tractors constructed for the combined purpose of reaping and threshing, even if they do not comply in all respects with the requirements of the Construction and Use Regulations, the Minister has issued the Motor Vehicles (Authorization of Special Types) (Amendment) (No, 2) Order, 1946, dated July 29, modifying the previous Order of 1944, which permitted the use on roads of such vehicles, provided the overall width did not exceed 10 ft.

Now the limit has been increased to 14 ft., subject to certain conditions as follow:—Where the overall width of any such machine (i) exceeds 8 ft. but not 9 ft., one person in addition to the driver shall be in attendance: (ii) exceeds 9 ft., two persons in addition to the driver shall be in attendance, one of whom must proceed at a reasonable distance in front of the vehicle, and the other at a reasonable distance behind it. in each case to give warning to other traffic.

No such vehicle exceeding 10 ft. in width may travel at a speed exceeding 4 m.p.h., and no other such vehicle at more than 10 m.p.h.

This particular Order will cease to have effect on November 30, 1946.

MOBILE WORKSHOPS FOR SALE

flgCLUDED in the 10.000 surplus 1 military vehicles to be auctioned by Messrs. Goddard and Smith at Bordon. Hants, from August 27, is a number of fully equipped workshop vehicles, complete with lathes, drills and generators. The sale will continue for about five weeks.


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