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173,675 Deficit: Hull Transport Committee expect a £73,675 accumulated deficit in the year ending March 31, 1961.
Depot Move: The Belfast depot of Pritchett and Gold and E.P.S. Co., Ltd., makers of Dagenite batteries, will be moved to 9b Albert Street, Belfast, on Monday.
Division to Company: The commercial engineering division of Microcell, Ltd., has been formed into a subsidiary company to be known as Microcell Engineering, Ltd.
Import Branch Change: The Import Licensing Branch of the Board of Trade has been transferred to the Tariff and Import Policy Division, Horse Guards Avenue, London, S.W.1.
More Volkswagens: Sales of Volkswagen commercial vehicles and station wagons in the United States during 1959 totalled about 30.000 units, an increase of 20 per cent. over 1958, Larger Office: The Automobile Association have opened a larger and more modem
headquarters in Liverpool. It is situated in a new office block at the corner of Lord Street and Derby Square.
Overtime Ban: As a protest against the employment of non-union drivers and conductors, the Todmorden branch of the Transport and General Workers' Union have imposed a ban on overtime working.
Anglo-Hungarian Trade: Vehicles to the value of 154m. are among goods which may be imported by Hungary from the United Kingdom under a three-year trade agreement signed between the two countries.
Service Extended: Assembly and after-sales service for Bonaliack and Sons, Ltd., Basildon, have been extended in the north with the completion of arrangements with Auto Lifts and Engineering, Ltd., Blackburn.
London Meeting: The annual meeting of the London and Home Counties centre of the Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund will be held in Room 47, 15 Fitzhardinge Street, London, W.1, on February 5 at 4.30 p.m.
Shinnonds. Partnership: Simmonds Aerocessories, Ltd, Treforest, have formed a company in Western Germany, to be known as Mecano-Simmonds, G.m.b.H. It is a partnership with Mecano-Bundy, G.m.b.H. Heidelberg.
£60,000 Dumptralcs: Parkinson Howard, Ltd.; main contractors for the Tema harbour project in Ghana, are taking delivery of 10 A.E.C. 10-cu.-yd. Dumptruks. The £60.000 order will be completed by the end of February.
Aluminium Concern: A new cornpany, James Booth Aluminium, Ltd., has been formed by the Delta Metal Co., Ltd., to acquire the whole . of the aluminium and light-alloy interests of its existing subsidiary, James Booth and Co., Ltd.
Price Cut: Reductions of about £50 in the home-market prices of the Albion Victor VT15A passenger chassis and the Victor VTI9A bulk-toad chassis range have been announced by Albion Motors, Ltd. Equivalent cuts will be made in overseas prices.
Scammell Representation: The National Engineering Co., Ltd., P.O. Box 208, Barlaman Avenue, Khartoum, and Luke Thomas and Co. (Ethiopia), Ltd., P.O. Box 119, Addis Ababa, who are Leyland and Atbion agents for the Sudan and Ethiopia respectively, now represent Scammell Lorries, Ltd.. also.