'EXPORT TRADE BOOMING: OFFICIAL FIGURES FOR AUGUST.
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The Board of Trade returns for August show that the value of commercial vehicles, cars, chassis and accessories imported was £149,394, which compares with 4180,487 for August, 1935, and is a considerable drop on the figure of £349,654 for August, 1934.
The number of complete commercial vehicles exported again showed a marked advance, the increase in the South African figures' being particularly good. The total number exported was 273, contrasted with 135 a year earlier, the values being £101,690 and £60,187 respectively. In the first eight months of the year, 2,027 complete commercial vehicles were exported, their value being £662,217, last year's corresponding figures being 1,396 vehicles and £406,872 respectively.
The export of commercial chassis showed a much larger inctease.than in the previous month, the improvement being fairly. general. The number of chassis exported was 1,239, of a value of £225,293, the previous year's comparable returns being 840 vehicles and £139,006. In the first eight months of the year, 8,510 chassis were exported, their value being £1,326,574, figures which contrast with 7,492 vehicles and £1,176,170 in 1935.
Restricting Liquid-fuel Delivery in London.
The Minister of Transport has decided that the delivery .of liquid fuel in London streets shall be subject to the same restrictions as coal and coke and other derivatives from coal. He intends, therefore, to include hydrocarbon oils (petroleum oil, coal tar, and oils produced from coal, shale, peat, or any other bituminous substance, and all liquid hydrocarbons) in the London Traffic (Restriction on the Delivery of Coke and Other Fuel) Regulations, 1936.
Copies of the draft regulations may be obtained from the Stationery Office, price 1d. each. The regulations are designed to prevent traffic obstruction B18 and will prohibit the delivery of the fuels named between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. in some 150 streets, or sections of streets, in the central London area.
Manchester Vehicle Parade to Celebrate Merger.
As forecast in The Commercial Motor on August 21, the first public demonstration by the united C.M.U.A. in Manchester, after the merger, is to be a vehicle parade, which will take place at Belle Vue on Saturday afternoon, October 17. Numerous prizes are to be awarded for smartness and efficiency and four cups have already been allocated to various classes.
India Tyre Co. Accepts Dunlop Offer.
At meetings held in Glasgow this week, shareholders of the India Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., approved resolutions authorizing contracts with the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd. The chairman said that the effect would be that the whole of the assets would be sold on terms which would enable the company to pay its shareholders, on liquidation, 27s. 6d. in cash for each £1 preference share, and 3s. 3d. in cash for each 1s. ordinary share. He intimated that the business at Inchinnan will be continued.
CONSTRUCTION AND USE REGULATIONS DATES POSTPONED.
As forecast in our issue dated Sep... tember 4; the delay in the issue :of. the approved Construction and Use'', Regulations has necessitated postpone5e meat of -the dates given in the draft:" In any case, the new requirements will'not be operative before January 1 next.
The Brighton ;Conference Banquet.
The toasts at the National Road Transport Conference banquet on,,' Tuesday will he" The Mayor and Corporation of the County Borough of Brighton," to be proposed by the Rt. Hon. Lord Iliffe, C.B.E., J.P. (vicepresident, Roads Improvement Association), response being by His Worship the Mayor; "The C.M.U.A. and Kindred Organizations," by Major the. Rt. Hon. G. C. Tryon, M.P., Post• master-General, to which Colonel A. Jerrett (president of the C.M.U.A.) and Major J. B. Elliott, O.B.E. (chairman, A.R.0.) will respond; "The Guests," by Mr. W. A. Willson (a vicechairman of the C.M.U.A.).
When Must Farm Lorries Carry Lights?
When Mr. Hubert Nixon, of Woodhall Farm, South Reddish, was summoned at Stockport, a few days ago, for driving a hay lorry without lights, he quoted paragraph 2 of Section 6 of the Road Transport Lighting Act, which states: "Vehicles engaged for the time being in carrying agricultural produce of an inflammable nature in • the course of internal operations of the'. farm shall be exempted from carrying lamps."
The magistrates declined to accept his contention that the Act covers the carrying of hay from a field at Adswood to a farm at South Reddish. The,chief constable pointed out that thede, , fenclant's.vehiele was on a public road.., The defendant was fined 7a. fid.
Mr. Nixon stated that he was being; . advised with regard to an appeal.