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To serve the Eastern Counties, the India Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., has opened a new depot at 10, Upper Goat Lane, Norwich.
Prices of the new commercial vehicles produced by the Rootes Grottp are: Commer 8-cwt. van. £350: Hillman utility model, E485, plus purchase tax £135 9s. 5d.. total £620 9s. 5d, '
To obtain a quick turn-round, .Fort Dunlop is employing "gangs .during week-ends and evenings to .unload lorries and railway trucks. Not one truck is-retained for-more than 24 hours.
Latex Products Pty., Ltd., is building a Dunlopillo ' factory at Annandale,
New South. Wales: and preparing plans . —
for one at Melbourne. Another Dunlop subsidiary, Battery Manufacturers Pty., Ltd., is to erect a. factory at Sandringham, Victoria. Seven double-deck buses owned by Hants and Sussex Motor Services, Ltd., Emsworth, are now being employed by Cardiff Corporation, Terms of the new British Transport Stock, to he issued to shareholders in the railways and London Tiansport, are expected to be announced during the evening of January 1.
* * A film to show the versatility of its system for instantly and automatically coupling mechanical horse tractors and trailers is being produced by Seammell Lorries, Ltd., and will be distributed throughout the world.
Major W. H. Rothwell, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.R.T.E., will speak on "Fundamentals of Maintenance Systems 's before members of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers at the North British Hotel, Edinburgh, on December 17, at 7.30 p.m.