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offer of £785,000 was made by Mr. George Dawson for the meattransport section of British Road Services, says The Financial Times.' As reported in The Commercial Motor on October 29, the section has not been sold.
Mr. Dawson is also bidding for the parcels organization of B.R.S. and "on the assumption that the price includes freehold properties worth some f5m., hopes to raise a Vim. debenture from various institutions," The Financial Times reports. Two finance houses are also said to be interested in buying the parcels network.
IN A LINE OR TWO The Leyland rear-engined double-decker is being tried in Walsall.
A representative of Leyland Motors. Ltd., is one of a party of businessmen who left for Pekin this week.
Leyland Motors, Ltd., have received orders for over 1,000 pneumo-cyclic gearboxes, mostly to be fitted in Leyland buses now in course of Production.
The index to volume 99 of The Commercial Motor, February 5-July 30,.1954, is now available from Temple Press Ltd., Bowling Green Lane, London, E.C.1., price 4d.
Output by the Standard Motor Co„ Ltd., now at a record level, is to be increased by a third, giving an annual production rate of 100,000 vehicles.
Production of commercial vehicles in Italy last year totalled 31.447, compared with 24,793 in 1952. The number of goods and passenger vehicles in Italy is now 309,695