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The Omnibus Passengers' Protection Association, which is fighting nationalization, now has 10,000 members.
Liverpool Chief Constable reports that 1,371 cases of theft from unattended vehicles were reported during the past year.
City editor of the "Sunday Express" says he has received the assurance of Sir Cyril Hurcomb that no offer has been made to buy B.E.T. bus interests.
Associated Commercial Vehicles, Ltd., is now located at 49, Berkeley Square, London, W.I. The overseas sales department of A.E.C., Ltd., is also there.
Record shipments were made from the Ford Dagenham factory in March, when 10,084 vehicles were sent overseas. Of this number, 4,250 were Fordson Major tractors.
Two Lincoln concerns—main dealers in Fordson vehicles—have merged their interests. They are Mr. W. H. Pilcher's Peterborough Motors, and Mr. George Read's Double R Garage.
Employment of Polish drivers and conductors on Nottingham buses is the subject of much local comment. They all passed rigorous tests and are understood to be giving satisfactory service.
According to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, motor taxation and oil duties are expected to produce £117,000,000 in 1949-50. •Expenditure on the roads will be about £26,000.000, ASKING FOR IT!
WHEREAS most hauliers have been VY trying to establish their entitlement to be regarded as short-distance hauliers, and thus escape nationalization, Messrs. Maton and Thom, of Montrose, have, according to Mr. A. Robertson, Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority, transformed the whole of their operations from short-distance to long-distance work.
He made this statement in refusing the firm's application for a licence for a trailer to, haul light-alloy aeroplane parts from Edzell Aerodrome to London. The work had been in progress since last September and would continue until the end of this year.
Mr. Robertson said that the firm had last year been granted a licence to carry building materials and furniture locally, with occasional runs to England. Now they had become 100-per-cent. longdistance operators.
REO MOVES TO STAINES
FROM premises on the Great West Road, Brentford, which it has occupied for so many years, Reo Motors, Ltd., has moved to 97, High Street, Staines, Middlesex. Parts service will be continued from Staines.
The Reo company has also been appointed distributor of Seddon vehicles in Berkshire and Oxfordshire.