Motor Industry's Potential Output
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THE motor industry could build 300,000 commercial vehicles and 700,000 cars a year if the Government and economic circumstances permitted. This would be more than enough to satisfy the demands of the home market and present export commitments. Mr. R. Gresham Cooke, director of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, made this statement on Monday at Sheffield.
He said that to achieve such a volume of output would require an extra 250,000 tons of steel compared with the 1950 allotment. This called for no great demand on the national economy, as the total need would be only 8.4 per cent. of The national steel output of 16m. tons. Before the war, the motor industry used 7 per cent. of the country's steel production.
SQUARING AN ACCOUNT
" I OPENLY admit breaking the law,
1 but 1 don't think it is wrong from my point of view, because I had no compensation for the loss of one vehicle and for the loss of longdistance traffic."
Walter Harold May, 102, Bushbury Lane, Wolverhampton, made this statement to the South Staffs stipendiary magistrate, last week, when he was charged with using a C-licence lorry for carrying goods for hire or reward and running a B-licence vehicle over the 25-mile limit without a permit.
The defendant was alleged to have used the B-licence vehicle to carry goods from Worcester to Old Dalby, Wares, and the C-licence vehicle for a load from Worcester to Wolverhampton, for which he received payment. Fines of 13 on each of the two summonses were imposed, with £4 2s. 6d. costs.
BLACKPOOL-LONDON SERVICE: DECISION PENDING
PENDING a decision by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, the West Midland Licensing Authority reserved his decision, last week, when Scout Motor Services, Ltd., and W. C. Standerwick, Ltd., sought a backing for a proposed overnight service between Blackpool and London via Cannock, Coventry and Birmingham.
Opposition was made by the Railway Executive, whose representative, Mr. J. G. Dixon, said that no evidence of need foe the service in the Midlands has been produced. For the applicants, Mr. W. Blackhurst stated that the coaches would leave Blackpool at 8.30 p.m. and arrive in London at 8.30 a.m. The night train arrived in the capital at 3.29 a.m. which was a "very unfortunate time."
TWO NEW COMPRESSORS
TWO new portable compressors, one of 2f cubic ft. capacity and the other of 5.2 cubic ft. capacity, have been announced by H.E.C. Compressors and Engines, Ltd., Levis Works, Stechford, Birmingham, 9. The smaller model, designated Model DEER, has a single-cylindered compressor and a I
h.p. motor mounted on a receiver. Its overall dimensions are 2 ft. 8 ins. by 1 ft. by 2 ft. 4 ins.
The larger unit, Model DTB/C, has a twin-cylindered compressor and a h.p. motor fitted with a fan blower. As in the smaller model, the compressor is coupled direct to the motor and there is no belt drive or flywheel. This model, which is 2 ft. long, 1 ft. 7 ins, wide and 2 ft. 9 ins, high, is mounted on a steel tubular chassis which forms the twin balance chambers.
Both motors are available for either single-phase (200-250 volt) or threephase (400-440 volt) supply, and both compressor units have a 2-in, bore and a 1-in. stroke.
OBITUARY
WE regret to record the death of MR. RORERT PEARSON. Mr. Pearson was the head of Messrs. Pearson's, Liverpool, a well-known coaching business, and of Sunniways Coachways. Happy Days Motorways, established by his father and himself, was acquired by the Crosville concern in 1935. He was 57.
CO-OP. WORKERS' RISES
A DECISION has been made by the 1—Icor:ciliation board to which was referred a dispute concerning improvements in the wage rates of transport workers in the retail co-operative movement. Male workers over 21 years aid are to receive a weekly rise of 7s. and females 5s. There are proportional advances for juniors. The new scales are back-dated to April 21
BEDFORD TAX REVISIONS
SLIGHT revisions in the purchase tax payable on some Bedford models have come into effect. New rates are as follows:—Bedford-Scammell articulated 10-tonner, ±:196 3s. 6d.; 7-ton shortwheelbase chassis, £205 18s. 5d.; 7-ton long-wheelbase chassis, £210 Os. 4d.; 10-12-cwt. van, £81 5s. 4d.