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.Collusive Tenders : Official Inquiry

11th November 1955, Page 118
11th November 1955
Page 118
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riE Board of Trade have referred the matter of common prices and collusive tendering to the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices Commission. The Commission will examine the general effect upon the public interest of agreements and arrangements among suppliers which restrict or limit price competition.

They will also consider agreements and arrangements relating to chargeS for the application of a process to goods, but collective and individual resale price maintenance, as considered in the Commission's recent report, will not be covered.

The supply of electric batteries is one of the subjects now before the Commission

TYRE TENDERS IDENTICAL THE attention of the Monopolies and I Restrictive Practices Commission is to be drawn by West Hartlepool Corporation to identical tenders-received by the corporation for the supply of bus tyres. The Dunlop, Firestone and Goodyear companies each quoted a rate of 0.76d. per vehicle-mile from November 7-December 31, and 0.79d. from January 1, 1956, to March 31, the price thereafter to be reviewed quarterly.

The Dunlop tender was accepted.

The chairman of Bournemouth Transport Committee told the council last week that seven identical tenders for tyres had been received.

B.R.S. REORGANIZATION In•

A PLAN to organize British Road Services in six divisions, each split up into districts and branches, is being discussed at divisional level. It has been welcomed by the Transport and General Workers' Union as a means for removing the uncertainty which has existed since the passing of the Transport Act, 1953.