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South African Drive Stepped Up

6th May 1949, Page 6
6th May 1949
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A S the result of the visit of Mr. H. 1-1.• Spurrier, managing director. of Leyland Motors, Ltd., to South Africa, plans for increasing output and extending the market for Leyland vehicles in the Union have been speeded up. A site at Elandsfontein, Germiston, has been purchased for a large new South African headquarters. It is also proposed to rebuild the Cape Town depot on a 40,000 sq. ft. site, which will also accommodate new offices and workshops.

• Vehicles are being assembled at the rate of 12-15 a week in a large hangar at Standerton airfield, about 100 miles south-west of Johannesburg.

The present system of field servicing for Leyland vehicles in South Africa is also to be intensified. A fleet of Comet service vans with all the necessary equipment for repairs, including welding and reconditioning, and machine tools and spares, will be used to take service engineers to the operator's door. The vans, which will also have refrigerators, cooking apparatus and beds for the engineers, will be manned by factory-trained personnel.

In England, Leyland Motors, Ltd., is acquiring more than 80,000 sq. ft. of the ex-aircraft factory at Squires Gate, Blackpool, for the storage of chassis and complete vehicles awaiting export.

LR.F. MEETS IN SWEDEN

THE opening session of the second council meeting of the International Road Federation was held in Goteberg, Sweden, on Monday. Subsequent proceedings took place at the Royal AutoMobile Club, Stockholm, and are expected to finish to-day.

Mr. R. Gresham Cooke, of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, and Mr. A. A. E. Morgan, of the British Road Federation, repre

sented the United kingdom. Other delegates came from Sweden, Switzerland, France and America.

ALCOHOL FOR BUSES

THE Madras Government proposes to use in some of its buses a mixture of 80 per cent. rectified spirit, manufactured from molasses, and 20 per cent. petrol. Should the experiment be successful, this fuel will be widely used. Plant is available at Nellikuppam to produce 15,000 gallons of rectified spirit a month. The Madras Government has applied to the Government of India for five more plants for the production of power'alcohol from molasses.

EASIER BATTERY SERVICE

BECAUSE di the inaccessibility of the batteries on some vehicles, the Chloride Electrical Storage Co., Ltd., has designed a new lid for Exide-Ironclad and Exide batteries. It embodies an inclined filling aperture, so that it,is easy to top up from the side. There is a central gas vent. As the side filling plug is blind, there is no risk that acid may splash out when the vehicle is cornering. Batteries with the normal vertical-filling orifice will continue to be made.


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