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NewFiat Plant : Fiat are to erect an assembly plant for goods vehicles and cars in Venezuela. It is due to conic into operation next year.
Saving on Tyres: The tyre mileage contract rate for Glasgow Transport Committee has been reduced to 0,625d. per vehicle mile. The estimated annual saving is £10,900.
Earlier Flyover: Hull's new Dairycoales level crossing flyover, due to be opened in March, 1963, may well be in use by next September. But in the period • immediately before it opens, traffic delays are likely to be very bad.
Museum Piece: A Glasgow Coronation tram will be shipped to Kennebunkport, Maine, U.S.A., for display there in the Seashore Trolley Museum. The request for the tram came from an exiled Scot in Linden, New Jersey.
Simms Subsidiary: Crosland Filters, Ltd„ is now in process of becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Simms Motor and Electronics Corpn., Ltd. Mr. T. Shields, founder of Crosland, continues as chairman and becomes sales director under the new arrangement.
Expansion: Approximately 700,000,000 Chilean escudos are to be invested by the end of 1970 in the expansion of Chile's road network and road goods vehicle fleet.. This comes within the framework of a long-term development plan of the Corporacion de Fomento development organization.
Slip Move: The Slip Group of Companies, manufacturers of the Molyslip range of oil supplements, have moved into new Slip Works at Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Herts. Mr. V. H. Carnell, who is in charge of Slip ,Works, is secretary of Slip Products, Ltd., and a director of other companies in the group.
Mercedes: Some 1,500 Type 319 Mercedes-Benz commerciat vehicles are to he produced monthly by Daimler-Benz AG, of Stuttgart, at the Dusseldorf plant formerly operated by the Auto Union vehicle concern. Steering units for all MercedesBenz commercial vehicles will be produced at the same works. During 1961, states the company, a total of 74,000 commercial vehicles has been produced, as against some 72,900 units in the previous year. Moved: R. W. Dicker and Co., haulage contractors, have moved from Parker Road to Rock Lane, Hastings. Their new telephone number is Hastings 6634.
Petrol Refining: Petrol from the Sahara is to be refined at Strasbourg and Karlsruhe and a large part of the pipeline is already completed. The pipeline begins at the tanker port of Lav6ra on the Etang de Berre, near Marseilles.
New Address: The West London office of the Exports Credits Guarantee Department has moved to Cunard Building, 15 Regent Street, London, S.W.1 (telephone number, Whitehall 9061). The Department's Sheffield office has moved to Fargate House, Fargate! Sheffield.
More Soviet Vehicles: In the first half of 1961 the Soviet Union produced some 202,000 goods vehicles and motorbuses— seven per cent, more than in the corresponding period of 1960. Trolleybus output went up by 19 per cent. to 339 units in the first half of 1961.
Poor Year : The Amsterdam firm of Krombout Motoren Fabriek D. Goedkoop Jr. NV announces that their results for 1961 are considerably below expectations. Increasing competition, particularly in the diesel engine field, made price reductions necessary, the company states, whereas the rising costs had called for increased prices.
Fiat Assembly : The Apeldoorn, Holland, vehicle plant formerly owned by the commercial vehicle concern, Auto industrie Verhcul, has been taken over by NV Leonard Lang's Automobielbedrijf, of Amsterdam, importer of Fiat vehicles into Holland, for the assembly there of goods vehicles. The plant is expected to start operation at the end of February.
Closed: The central bus garage of London Transport, in Willow Walk, West Green Road, N.15, was closed on January 2. Of the routes which operated, wholly or partly, from the garage, five, Nos. 29, 144, 217, 231 and 233, have been transferred to Wood Green Garage. Route 29A. however, has been transferred to Palmers Green Garage and the small allocation for route 171 has been moved to Tottenham Garage.