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Police cars through dense fog is under investigation by scientists at Birmingham University.
During recent months the first prototype unit has been scanning the movements of cars and other vehicles on University roads; it can pick out an individual lamp-post at a distance of 100 yards. 000,000 Indian Orders: New orders worth nearly £300,000 have been received from two Indian States by Ashok Leyland Ltd. of Madras, Leyland Motors' vehicle-producing associate in India. The Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation has ordered 70 Leyland Comet single-deck buses and the Assam State Transport Board has placed a repeat order for 15 Comets.
'Langton Transport Expansion: Two big building projects costing more than £150,000 were announced last week by the Stokeupon-Trent group of Longton Transport (Holdings) Ltd. Work on a new steel warehouse and a distribution warehouse will start early in the New Year, said a spokesman for the company.
Esher By-pass Proposals: The Minister of Transport has published his proposals for the line of the Esher by-pass. This has become necessary because the existing route of A3 through Esher cannot be improved without affecting property on a very large scale. The proposed new road, about 6s miles long, will run to the south and east of Esher. It will leave the Kingston by-pass just west of the Hook underpass and run south of Claygate to Arbrook. It will then cross A3 at Fairmile Common and swing north a Cobham, rejoining A3 at Pain's Hill.
Christmas Holidays: The offices of Temple Press Ltd. publishers of The Commercial Motor, will be closed on Friday, December 24 and will reopen on Tuesday, December 28. Vauxhall to Expand?: Following the closing down of the British Aircraft Corporation facilities in Luton there is a possibility of the premises being acquired by Vauxhall Motors Ltd. and of alternative employment for many of the personnel displaced by the closure. For some time Vauxhall have needed additional floor space and also accommodation for vehicle storage and sales distribution.
Anti-smoke Additive: Fins SLD anti-smoke additive, described in our issue of December 3, is available in 5 gal. drums and 45 gal. barrels, as stated in that issue; a reference to " 25 gal. barrels " in the same report was incorrect.