AT THE HEART OF THE ROAD TRANSPORT INDUSTRY.

Call our Sales Team on 0208 912 2120

Personal Pars

15th May 1936, Page 38
15th May 1936
Page 38
Page 39
Page 38, 15th May 1936 — Personal Pars
Close
Noticed an error?
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.

Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

The directors of Trust of Transport shares, managers of Trust of British Transport, announce the appointment of SIR HERBERT E. BLAIN as chairman of the board.

Ma. C. GIBSON, resident manager in Australia for British Timken, Ltd., Birmingham, has returned to England after an absence of 24 years. He will be in this country for about two months before returning to Australia.

Ma. S. E. Smrrn, who was the service manager of the late Gilford Motor Co., Ltd., has joined the staff of Coaches and Components, Ltd., 469471a, Holloway Road, London, N.7, in a similar capacity, to look after the interests of Gilford operators.

At a meeting of the Halifax Joint Omnibus Committee (Halifax Corporation, L.M.S. and L.N.E. Railways) on May 8, MR. C. J. SELWAY, C.B.E.,

passenger manager, L.N.E.R., Southern Area, was unanimously elected as chairman of the Joint Committee for the year ending March, 1937. MR. E. SCHNEIDER, who for the past five years has been British representative for Maybach engines and gearboxes, has just been appointed managing director of Maybach Gears, Ltd., a new company, with offices at Lincoln House, High Holborn, London, W.C.1, which has acquired the sole manufacturing rights for the British Empire. The company has been formed by a prominent British manufacturing industrial concern, hitherto not directly associated with the automobile industry. The activities of Maybach Gears Ltd., will be concentrated on the manufacture and marketing of Maybach gearboxes for commercial vehicles. private cars, railcars, etc., and, in the near future, we hope to publish a description of a new eight-speed box, which, we are informed, has just emerged from its testing period and will, in the near future, be going into production.

We recently announced that CAPT. J. S. IRVING had been elected president of the Institution of Automobile Engineers for the session 1936-37. The vice-presidents are MR. P. C. KIDNF.A. MAJOR-GEN. S. C. PECK and MR. F. 6. WOOLLARD, and the following have been elected to serve on the council:— Messrs. W. G. Andrews, E. M. Booty, W. W. Constantine, C. K. Edwards, L. H. Hounsfield, Barnard Humphrey, A. E. Johnson, J. W. Mills, R. Pentony, L. J. Shorter, C. M. van Eugen, Maj. C. G. Nevatt and Capt. G. S. Wilkinson. CANADIAN DUTIES LOWERED.

The present Canadian excise tax on motor vehicles is being replaced by a flat rate levy of 5 per cent., applying to all, regardless of Canadian or Empire content, on the value in excess of 050 dollars. The tax per vehicle will, in no case, exceed 250 dollars. 7.1flakers producing annually fewer than 10,000 vehicles or-chassis, at least 50 per cent. of the factory cost. of which has been incurred in the British Empire, may purchase as , original equipment tyres and tithes free of poundage tax, but if the output exceeds 10,000, they must be at least 60 per cent. Empire content to qualify for exemption from the existing tax on tyres and tubes. British fire-engines, other extinguishing machines and chassis for these and other .complete parts, excluding chassis parts, are free of duty, compared with the intermediate tariff of 10 per cent. and the general tariff of 25 per cent. The same applies to British motor vehicles of all kinds and their chassis; and chassis for trolleybuscs, the intermediate and general tariffs in this case being 171 per cent. and 274 per cent.

Further details may be obtained from the Office of the High Commissioner for Canada, Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London, SAVA.

Haulage Business Given as Present.

The gift of a business to a Droughty Ferry man, in gratitude for his services, was revealed, last Friday, at a sitting, in Dundee, cif the Northern Scotland Licensing Authority, Mr. Henry Riches. Mr. Robert W. Kydd, 23, Castle Street, Broughty Ferry, applied for an A licence to carry on the carrier's business formerly conducted by Mrs. Mary Mackie, 4, Hartington Place and 485, Brook Street, Broughty Ferry.

Mr. R. W: Currie, for the applicant, said that the business was Carried on by Mr. Mackie until his death a few years ago, and since then Mr. Kydd had conducted it on behalf of Mrs. Mackie.

Mr: Riches said that apparently the applicant was general manager and handyman in the business. According to Mrs. Mackie's story, instead of selling her undertaking, she had actually made Mr. Kydd a present of it for his useful services during the past 10 years. Mr. Riches, in granting the application, said he was struck by this strong expression of gratitude.

L.N.E.R. Orders for Motor Equipment.

The L.N.E. Railway has ordered a wide assortment of motor vehicles, trailers and bodies, amongst them being the following :-20 Albion 4-ton forward-control platform lorries; 44 Scammelt 3-ton tractor units, 6 Scammell 6-ton tractor units and a 2-ton rigid pole trailer, also 118 sets of coupling gear; 21 Bedford 2-ton long-wheelbase chassis; 2 Commer 1-ton normal-control parcel vans ; 4 Morris 8-10-cwt. chassis (from Stewart and Ardern, Ltd). ; 88 Cranes 3-ton long-platform trailers and 8-3-ton short-type ; 20 6-ton long-Letform trailers ; 3 3-ton telescopic-pole trailers ; 2 Dyson 3-ton short-platform trailers, 2 6-ton telescopic-pole trailers; 1 T.T.A. Dragon 3-ton semi-trailer. The following bodies are also to be built and mounted ;-4 parcel vans by the North London Engineering Co., Ltd., London, N.W.10; 21 platform bodies of various types by G. Westmoreland and Sons, of Wakefield. A new process for producing synthetic petrol, which is claimed to be one,third cheaper than other methods, is said to have been discovered by the Wintershall Co., Germany's largest potash concern. The new method applies the Fischer-Tropsch process, used for hard coal, to lignite.

A new company, the Central German Oil and Petrol Co., Kassel, has been formed w;th a capital of £41,500 to exploit this new petrol. Its annual production capacity is estimated at 50,000 tons,

French Production Drops.

The production of the French motor industry is reported to have shown a further drop, last year, from 189,000 to 167,000 cars and lorries. The total number of vehicles in use in France, in 1935, nevertheless, rose from 1,971,000 to 2,050,000. "


comments powered by Disqus