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It is reported that Norway needs 3,500 vehicles this year, and hopes to buy most of them from Britain.
The new Goodyear factory in South Africa, the sixth to be built in the
• Empire, has just gone into production.
The Chloride Electrical Storage Co., Ltd., is opening a new sales depot ,at 89, Albion Street, Leeds, Lon April 1.
Motor-vehicle licences for the first quarter expire on March 24, and licensees are asked to make early application for renewal.
On the second day of the resumption of work after the power. black-out, Vauxhall Motors,. Ltd., exceeded tho production schedule.
A booklet illustrating and describing representative types of Taskers trailer and semi-trailer has been issued ' by Taskers of Andover (1932), Ltd.
About 1,600 Civil Servants would be "saved" if petrol rationing were abolished, said Mr. Shinwell in the House of Commons last week.
Darlington Town Council is to raise trolleybus fares to meet increased costs brought about mainly by theintroduction of a 44-hour week and holidays with pay.
After hearing an address by Mr. M. Clark Hall, of the British Road Federation, residents and traders of Ruislip passed a unanimous resolution condemning the Transport Bill.
A resolution that the Road Traffic Act be amended to impose a general speed limit of 25 m.p.h. in all built-up areas has been adopted by the Yorkshire Federation of Accident Prevention Councils.
London Transport's Chiswick maintenance and overhaul works were recently visited by the Air Council Manpower Economy Committee. Air Marshal Sir Norman Bottamley,K.C.B., C.I.E., D.S.O., A.F.C., InspectorGeneral, R.A.F., headed the party. ONLY ROAD TRANSPORT WILL DO
GWING evidence in support of a licence application by the O.K. Carrier Co., Ltd., Leeds, the manager of a large concern of electrical component manufacturers said that his company had a unique form of conveyor-belt system which had to be constantly fed to prevent a break in production for export. This could be achieved only through the flexibility of road transport.
The Yorkshire Licensittg Authority granted the application fiat• post-War A -licences for 20 vehicles and five trailers,
• an increase of Six vehicles and one trailer, as compared with the company's pre-war fleet.
BRITISH BUSES FOR CENTRAL AFRICA
GIX buses with Duple bodies are already in operation by Overseas Motor Transport CO:, Ltd., of 120
Pall Mall. Lcindon, S.W.1; in N..irobi and Mombasa, British East Africa. In . the next few months 15 Guy Arabs are also being shipped for service in Chichiri, Blantyre, Nyasaland, under the same operating concern. These also have Duple bodies, specially designed for Central African operation and incorporating the Duple export construction of metal underframing and composite framework of special teak-substitute timbers. Exterior panelling is of aluminium with steel corner panels and wings. There are first-class and second-class compartments, and special attention is given to ventilation.
These buses form part of a large British fleet for Nyasaland, for operation under Government licence. Other buses are of utility type, comprising Bedford chassis with Mulliner bodies, and 11-seater Bedford 30-cwt. vehicles with coachwork by Allweather Bodies, Ltd., Kilburn, London.
BLOW TO S.A. RAILWAYS
rRITICIZING the railways for their
" stubborn " attitude towards longdistance road services, the road transportation board in Johannesburg has granted licences to two road operators to run coach services from that city to Durban. Public Utility Transport Corporation, Ltd., has been authorized to operate daily, with a running time of not less than 14 hours, and Mr, L Jackson to run a service three times a week in each direction.