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main dealers are at present taking a course of instruction in the Perkins oil engine at the Peterborough works of F. Perkins, Ltd. The course erds to-day.
This development suggests that the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., has approved the fittingof the Perkins unit, although no official confirmation has yet been given to "The Commercial Motor."
NINE VEHICLES MUST DO WORK OF 10
THE need for more intensive work on the part of those engaged in the road transport industry during the crisis was stressed at the 27th anniversary dinner of the Crow Carrying Co., Ltd., Barking, which was held last Saturday. Nearly 200 members of the staff and their friends were present.
Mr. Herbert H. Crow, governing director, said that, in the present economic crisis, the company could serve the Nation best by making the utmost use of its vehicles. When new vehicles were ordered early this year, the delivery date was specified as 1950, but the quota for export had since been increased and the supply position was even worse than before. The company must, therefore, try to make nine vehicles do the work of to.
PRACTICAL TECHNICALITIES MADE PLAIN CNGINEERING apprentices in the commercial-vehic:e industry are particularly recommended to read "The Motor Repair Manual," a new impression of which was published on October 13. The book contains 138 pages, apart from the endex, and deals sit simple language with the repair of motor vehicles. It is lavishly illustrated with line drawings.
"The Motor Repair Manual" is published for Temple Press ,Ltd. by the English Universities Press, Ltd., and is available at 4s. 6d. from all booksellers and bookstalls, or at 5s., by post, from Temple Press, Ito., Bowling Green Lane, London, E.C.I.
UNIFIED CONTROL?
ACCORDING to "The Financial Times," the Government of India is likely to receive, within the next few months, a survey of transport. It is thought that a system of unified control will be recommended. Mr. K. C. Neogy had begun to carry out the survey before his appointment as Refugee Minister.
DAIMLER SERVICE MOVE THE service and spare-parts depart! ments of Transport Vehicles (Daimler), Ltd., have been transferred to the Daimler company's No. 2 factory, Browns Lane, Al-Lesley, Coventry, where Mr. T. R. Nicoll, service manager, now has his office.
OVERSEAS EXPANSION
1'0 widen export activities, Thos. W. I Ward, Ltd., Sheffield, is establishing branches or subsidiary companies in overseas central. A new Belgian organization, known as Thos. W Ward (Belgium)* S.A., has been formed, with headquarters in Antwerp.