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A special sale of passenger vehicles and delivery vans will take place at Measham. near Burton-on-Trent, on December 13.
The address of L. A. Rothwell and Co. has been changed to c,lo Bridge Road Motors, Ltd., London Road, Hounslow, Middlesex.
The address of the export division of Pinchin, Johnson and Associates. Ltd., has been changed to 4, Carlton Gardens, London, S.W.1.
The Ministry of Transport requests that applications for renewals of motorvehicle licences be made early. Licences can be renewed on and after Decem
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The only haulage firm to be taken over by the Road Haulage Executive from November 27-30 was G. S. and E. W. Sharman (Unit D.282), Brimington.
Dansk Oversoisk Motor Industri, Glostrup, states that all 16 Leyland Comet chassis for Copenhagen Municipality are being fitted with this company's DOMI all-steel bodies, The Council of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has reduced its membership subscription for 1950 by 10 per cent., as a gesture towards cutting the industry's expenses.
With the conversion last week-end, of the Rooth Park tram service to trolleybus working. Cardiff is left with only one tram route, on which trolley buses will take over in the New Year.
A dinner and dance are to be held by the automobile division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers at the Dorchester Hotel, London, W.I. on February 10. Tickets cost II 15s. 6d. each.
Next year's Paris Show will be held from October 5-15. All sections will be included.
Ondura. Ltd., has moved to Hard Ings Road, Keighley. Its Shipley factory remains as a depot.
A Motor Show is to be held in Copenhagen from February 24 to March 5 next year. Commercial vehicles are likely to he exhibited.
Free travel for school children in Leeds is to be further restricted in the New Year. Doncaster Education Committee is considering taking similar action. Sir Hartley• Shawc• ross will be guest
of honour at the Institute of the Motor Industry's annual dinner at the Dorchester Hotel, London, W.1, on January 5.
On October 28 we stated that vehicles used on refuse-tip work by Edinburgh Corporation have to wait at the tips until others arrive to drag them off. This was incorrect.
Until the Transport and General Workers Union's objections are overcome the speed limit for heavy goods vehicles is unlikely to be raised, states Birmingham Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. H. W. Heyman, managing director of Smith's Electric Vehicles, Ltd., will lecture on electric vehicles to the Industrial Transport Association, at the Royal Society of Arts, John Adam Street, London, W.C.2, on December 13 at 6.30 p.m.
An Air Ministry certificate issued after the Thornycroft Nubian firecrash tender tests, described in "The Commercial Motor" on November 18, shows. the foam output to be 2,222 g.p.m. A total of 900 lb. of CO, gas is carried in the 18 cylinders.