A.C.V. Sales Down : Export Orders Up
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TURNOVER and profit of Associated I Commercial Vehicles, Ltd., for the 'six months ended last March had fallen as compared with last year, it was announced on Wednesday. Production facilities had been rationalized and the, process would continue, bat. the benefits would not be fully apparent .during the current year Export orders had increased, but a revival of the home market was not yet in sight. Total orders showed little change from the number on hand a yeas ago.
An interim dividend of Is. 6d. per Ll ordinary stock unit is being paid.
FIRST-AID CONTEST
AMBULANCE teams from the municipal transport undertakings in the cities of Birmingham, Leicester. and Nottingham will represent the Midland area in the competition for the Stirk Trophy, organized by the National Road Passenger Transport Ambulance Association.
The teams gained first three places in the Midlands area eliniinating contest at West Bromwich last Sunday, when groups from Wolverhampton, West Bromwich and the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd.; also competed.
REED DRIVERS' AWARDS
OF 350 drivers employed by the Reed Paper Group, 77 per cent, last year qualified for Rospa safe-driving awards. These were presented at a ceremony last Saturday. Reed Transport, Ltd., have 500 heavy goods vehicles and semitrailers. The Group's vehicles covered nearly 4m. miles in 1957, carrying some 350,000 ions of paper and other traffic.
T.R.T.A. MAN HEADS PARTY THE new leader of the Conservative • group on Nottingham City Council
is air. W. G. E. Dyer, East Midlands divisional secretary of the Traders' Road Transport Association. He has served on the council for I 1 years, and is prospective Parliamentary candidate for West Nottingham.
MOVING TO THE WEST THE chief traffic officer with the ▪ Midland General Omnibus Co., Ltd., Mr. K. II. Wellman, has been appointed area traffic superintendent of the Western National Omnibus Co., Ltd. He will take up his new duties on June 9, and will be responsible for Western National's services in East Cornwall and South Devon.
DUTCH DEALERS' VISIT
PRODOCTION of Bedford vehicles at Dunstable was watched yesterday by 75 Dutch dealers, who were visiting the works to see Vauxhall Motors' completed expansion scheme. The previous day they had studied the assembly of cars. Earlier this month 71 Belgian dealers made a similar two-day visit to the works.