Britain and the Common Market
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BRITAIN'S entry into the Common Market is essential if she is to remain the hub of the Commonwealth, says Mr. John Oldham, chairman and managing director of Oldham-and Son, Ltd.
Speaking to members of Denton U.D.C. who were entertained at the company's Manchester factory, he said: "As a very fervent believer in the existence and welfare of the British Commonwealth, I believe that Britain's ultimate entry into the Common Market is essential and inevitable if she is going to remain wealtIly, strong and stable, and the hub of the British Commonwealth.
"The fact is that, as has been shown by our own experience in setting up companies overseas and in the Commonwealth, manufactured exports from Britain to the Commonwealth are bound to decrease and not increase, as manufacturing organizations in the Commonwealth countries are increased in variety and number."
Big Vauxhall Plant Change DRASTIC alterations have taken place in the plans for the new factory of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., which is to be built near Ellesmere Port in the Wirral. Instead of producing complete commercial vehicles, the new plant will concentrate on the manufacture of power units, gearboxes and axles for assembly at Luton and Dunstable. Building is due to commence at Ellesmere Port in October and according to present schedules the works will be in production in 1963.
Although the factory area will be 1 million sq. ft. instead of the 21. million originally proposed, employment is expected to be found for 4,000 operatives at the outset, building up 10 7,000, as compared with the 3.500 quoted in earlier estimates.
P.S.V. Cricket Competition THE semi-finalists in this year's National P.S.V. Undertakings Cricket Competition are Northern General Transport Co., Ltd. v. Manchester Corporation, and London Transport (Country Buses) v. Birmingham Corporation.
Manchester have been runners-up for the past three years. This year's final, for the Castro] Shield, will be at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, on September 6.
OIL ON THE SILENCER ANCASTER AND CO., Church J-1 Road. Mitcham, Surrey, were fined £5 at Mitcham Court after admitting that one of their lorries emitted dense smoke, causing pedestrians to turn away. Harry Wiggins, the driver, was given an absolute discharge.
For the firm, a solicitor said the lorry was not normally used on the road. A fault had developed causing oil to drop on to the silencer, which made the smoke.