INSTITUTE OF MOTOR TRADE EXAMINATION.
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The 20th examination of the Institute of the Motor Trade will be held in Loudon and provincial centres on November 29. The council is offering gold, silver and bronze medals for the three candidates securing the highest number of marks in the April and November examinations this year. Full particulars with regard to the examination syllabus, copies of papers (price Is.) set at recent examinations, and other details may be obtained from the secretary of the Institute, 201, Great Portland Street, London, W.I.
Is Mersey Tunnel a " Highway "?
The Mersey Tunnel Joint Committee considered, last week, the position with regard to motor vehicles using the tunnel, in view of a recent decision at Birkenhead, when the magistrates refused to accept the contention that the tunnel was not a highway in the accepted term of the Road Traffic Act, 1934. In April, Mr. Stuart Deacon,
at Liverpool, held that the tunnel did not come within the scope of the Road Traffic Act, in a case in which a motorist was summoned for exceeding the speed limit of 30 m.p.h. in builtup areas.
The Joint Committee decided to instruct the clerk to report on the whole situation, With a view of taking such steps as may be advisable to clarify the position. BIG JUMP IN FORDSON TRACTOR EXPORTS.
Exports of Fordson tractors from the Ford works at Dagenham have shown remarkable increases during the present year. For the first seven months, they increased by 400 per cent., compared with the same period last year and, in the month of June, the gain was no less than 600 per cent. The United States, Canada, South America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand are among the chief countries to which these tractors are being sold. It might be added that Fordson sales in Great Britain have also materially advanced. .
Dorman's Improved Trading.
In the year ended March 31 last, W. H. Dorman and Co., Ltd., the wellknown engine-manufacturing concern, of Stafford, made a gross profit of £62,385, compared with 446,477 a year earlier; the net profit rase from
£1,030 to £11,598. The total debit balance is now reduced to £.58,867.