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in Scotland• IN a recent industrial report, the Scottish Office says that the Scottish motor vehicle industry's output increased by 9+ per cent. in 1961, partly because production began at the 13.M.C. truck plant at Bathgate. Albion Motors, Ltd., again raised their output.
Commenting on the future, the report says the outlook is dominated by the new B.M.C. plant and that of the Rootes Group and Pressed Steel Co. at Linwood.
"While these will not be in full production for some time yet, the production in 1962 of trucks at Bathgate and vehicle bodies at Linwood should go a long way toward offsetting, if it does not more than offset, the continued reduction in the output of railway equipment, even allowing for the North British Locomotive Co., Ltd., going into liquidation," the report says.
" By the end of the year the rate of output of trucks at Bathgate is expected to be 700 per week .. . and production at the Rootes Group factory is expected to begin at the end of this year. Albion Motors completed in 1961 the:r large extension at Scotstoun for gear production. Rubery Owen and Co. are planning to build a large factory at Cumbernauld to produce vehicle chassis and cab frames for B.M.C."
The motor industry is obviously becoming a major force in Scottish affairs.
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Away From It All AAANY harassed transport officials have, no doubt, looked -1-Vienviously at calendar reprints of the Cutty Sark at full sail, wondering if modern civilization is really all that it is cracked up to be But the Cutty Sark had its problems. Recently one of the two surviving members of its crew died at the age of 98. It was then recounted that, immediately on recruitment, he had taken a leading part in a disastrous voyage.
The mate killed a mutinous seaman, after which the mate himself was placed under close arrest by the captain. Later, however, the crew again became mutinous and the captain jumped overboard. As a result the new apprentice then had to navigate the ship back to port because the second mate was too short-sighted.
Perhaps today's haulage problems are not so bad after
" Ization"-izing IDON'T know what the fascination is in the suffix " ization to otherwise simple words, but it must be a considerable one for transport people' the world over.
We in Britain have contributed the words nationalization, denationalization and renationalization (to mention three wellknown " izations "). The Americans—great devotees of such words—can claim containerization, trailerization and dieselization. Now two more are creeping up on us fast. Virtually every report about transport in the Common Market now contains the words harmonization and liberalization.
There are, of course, also the internationally used words standardization and rationalization. All of this is going to bring about, before long, distinct signs of mental confusization.