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FOUR 3,600-gal. tankers, formerly operated on contract-A licence by Slater's Transport, Ltd., Thornton-leDale, Pickering, have been taken over by a new company, Ensign Tankers, Ltd., Pickering. Mr. Arthur Slater, of Slater's Transport, is on the board of Ensign Tankers, and his co-director is Mr. W. L. Smith, until recently general manager of Harold Wood and Sons, Ltd., Heckmondwike,
Extensive premises with a feptitage of about 150 yd. are being built at Pickering for the new company. These will accommodate commercial vehicle, tractor and car sales and service equipment, and will cater for maintenance of the tankers.
The vehicles are at present restricted to the carriage of heavy oils, but the management intend to extend their work to cater for all materials, both liquid and fluidized solids.
HYDE PARK TUNNEL TO HAVE ONLY TWO LANES
WHEN the Park Lane Improvement VI' Bill received its second reading in the House of Commons last week, pressure was applied unsuccessfully for the Knightsbridge-Piccadilly underpass, to be built at Hyde Park Corner, London, to be provided with four lanes instead of two. The tunnel will cost £1.5m.
Mr. Ernest Davies and several other speakers considered that another £750,000 on building four lanes would be well spent because of the growing volume of traffic. Mr. Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport, replied that surface improvements at Hyde Park Corner and the underpass would together provide a 40-per-cent, reserve capacity, which should be adequate for increases in traffic for at least 10 years.
He added that London Transport did not intend to use the underpass, because of difficulties in transhipping-passengers.
HAMMERSMITH FLY-OVER URGENT
raA VIADUCT at Hammersmith Broadway was a most urgent priority, the town planning committee told London County Council on Tuesday. The cost of building it was estimated at not more than I
A reinforced-concrete structure about . half a mile long is contemplated. It would rise to a height of 21 ft, and have two 22-ft. carriageways within an overall width of 60 ft.
.• It is hoped shortly to start widening Euston Road between Albany Street and Gower Street.
SCANIA VABIS ENTERING BRAZIL
TNDER a scheme approved by the
Brazilian Government 'a factory is to be built in Sao Paulo for the manufacture of 1,000 Scania Vabis oil engines a year. Scania Vabis 8-10-ton lorries will also be assembled there.
About 150 Scania Vabis vehicles a year are being exported to Brazil, but during the next three years more than 1,600 are expected to he shipped knocked down.