Duke Opens British Exhibition
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GREAT interest in the display of commercial vehicles (described in The Commercial Motor last week) was shown by the Duke of Edinburgh when he opened the British Exhibition in New York last week.
Among leaders of the motor industry who attended the opening were the Hon. Geoffrey Routes, president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Mr. J. F. Brantley, export sales director of the British Motor Corporation, and Mr. D. G. Stokes, director of Leyland Motors, Ltd.
B.M.C. LLANELLY PROJECT
PRODUCTION at the proposed plant of the British Motor Corporation at Felinfoel, Llanelly, may begin by the end of next year. The factory will cost £7.5m. and employ some 3,500 workers making body pressings and subassemblies. It will be controlled by Fisher and Ludlow, Ltd.
On Tuesday the B.M.C. announced the 5-cwt. van version of their light frontwheel-drive car. The new model is available under Austin and Morris labels. A full description and road-test summary are given on pages 666-668.
NOT ON THE MAP YET
THE Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., Sunderland District Omnibus Co., Ltd., and Trimdon Motor Services, Ltd., still insist that the proposed bus station, at Easington, Co. Durham, is unnecessary. No further action is anticipated until the Ministry of Housing and Local Government state whether the bus station should be included on the town map.
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