A.E.G. to Build in South Africa
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A NEW company, A.E.C. (South r-1 Africa), Ltd., is being registered to manufacture and market A.E.C. vehicles in South Africa, This concern will be a subsidiary of J. H. Plane Africa, Ltd., Johannesburg, in whom, it was announced on Tuesday, A.E.C., Ltd., have acquired. a substantial interest.
Plane's are big trailer manufacturers. A.E.C.'s chairman, •Sir William Black, and Mr. J. D. Slater, a director, are joining the board of J. H. Plane Africa, Ltd.
Dowson and Dobson, Ltd., who have represented A.E.C. in South Africa for 18 years, will transfer their distributorship to the new South African A.E.C. company on July 1.
A statement issued simultaneously on Tuesday by Norris, Herity and Gardners, Ltd., and signed by Mr, J. H. S. Gardner, joint managing director, said that, according to their information, Mr. J. H. •Plane would join the board of A.E.C. (South Africa), Ltd., and become general manager. on July 1. Mr. Plane had said that Gardner engines would be available in certain A.E.C. chassis built and offered for sale in South Africa.
The full Gardner agency in that territory will remain in the hands of J. H. Plane and Co., Ltd.; a subsidiary , of J. H. Plane Africa, Ltd., under the managership of Mr. C. M. Plane.
AGREEMENT ON MANUFACTURE
i‘ 4 AN UF A CTUR 1 NG agreement has k VI been concluded between The Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great Britain), Ltd., and Electro Hydraulics, Ltd., who are now producing all Goodyear designed wheel, brake and associated hydraulic equipment.
Under the new management Goodyear retains responsibility for design, modification and repair of all equipment, except the hydraulic brake controls, which will be designed by Electro Hydraulics.
RUNAWAY: FINES OF £14
OXFORD magistrates last week heard how a trailer broke loose from a British Road Services lorry in Cowley, and ran into a parked car. The runaway trailer, leaving the factory of Morris ' Motors, Ltd., pushed the car about 20 yd. against the hand brake.
The lorry driver, Roy Ivor Gunn of Swindon, was fined £.7 for having a hand lever for the trailer in a dangerous condition. B.R.S. were also fined £7 and £2 3s. 3d. costs for permitting the offence.
VAUXHALL FACTORY VISIT L'IVE industrial executives from overseas visit Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., Luton, next Thursday for a factory tour and discussion on wages structure. The party, which consists of an Indian, a Ghanaian, a Briton from Kenya, a Nigerian and an African from Uganda, is studying British industry under the auspices of the Industrial Welfare Society.