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All new Nuffield vehicles will be fitted with television suppressors.
"Steel Tubes for Automobile Purposes" is rims British Standard The Manchester depot of Gandy. Ltd.. has been moved from 4, Wood Street. to 19-23, York Street, Maneht.ster, I.
Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce has Issued a statement in which concern is expressed over possible control of C-licensees.
De Nerierlandsche Motoren. Rotterdam, Guy distributors for the Benelux countries, has ordered a number of Arab underfluor-engined chassis.
Farmers have been asked by the Government to ensure that loads. of roots are trimmed and that the worst of mud. isknocked off wheels of vehicles before coming on to the highway.
About 450 delegates will attendthe International Union of Public Transport conference which will, take place next June in Edinburgh. The president in M M. 0. Hider. of Brussels,
An international internal-combustion-engine congress will be held in Paris from May 8-19. 1951. It is being organized by Le Syndicat des Consirumeurs de Moteurs h Combustion Interne.
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A paper on diminution costs will be read, Ivy Mr. C. Courtney Cramp to the London branch of the Industrial Transport Association, at the Royal Society of Arts, London, W.C.2, on November 21, at 6.30 p.m.
The Weston-super-Mare branch of the Silver Sails Taxi Service has been acquired by Mr. R. A. Kemp, director, who becomes sole proprietor. The Weston and Bath depots arc to be dropped and the Bristol depot developed. Triplex Safety Glass Co.. Ltd.. is to double its output. • Austin production rose by 24 Mr cent. last year to 157,628 vehicles.
The Crossway; Ser:v.ice gtation. London. S.E,10, Is now open 24 hours a day.
F. Perkins. Ltd., Peterborough. has sponsored the .Perkins Agricultural Drivers' Club.
The 1951 conference of the Public Transport Association will be held at Bournemouth from May 1-3. • • In 12 months, more than £600 was placed In uncollected-fares boxes on Nottingham municipal buses.
Glasgow Corruiration is to seek to extend one of its trolleybus services by 2J.5 miles into . [lam , King's Park area. • • • The Road Haulage Executive acoutred 53 haulage undertakings between September lei and October 15,
Shareholders in the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd. have authorized an increase in M.( ,wing powers from £11 million. to £22
I. 8. Saad et Fils have been appointed Leytand agents for Syria, the Lebanon and Transiordan, The East Asiatic Co., Ltd., represents Leyland in Paraguay. .
The Bristol underfloor-engined Passenger chassis, a prototype complete with body, will be demonstrated, for the benefit of officials of the British Transport Commission, at Bristol next week.
Representatives of the Ministry of Supply, the Home Office, the Railway Executive and the coach industry were among 300 guests at the tenth anniversay dinner-dance of lames Whitson and Co., Ltd., last Friday,