Volvo to Spend $7m. in Argentina?
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IT is reported that A.B. Volvo are • prepared to invest Sum. in building a commercial-vehicle factory in Argentina with the object of manufacturing 11,200 10-ton oil-engined trucks there in the next eight years.
Volvo's managing director. Mr. Gunnar Engellau. has stated that a scheme worked out by Volvo experts after studies in the Argentine has recently been submitted to the Argentine Government, but that no final reply had yet been received. The Volvo subsidiary Bolinder-Munktell, who make tractors and road-making machinery, have submitted a similar plan for the manufacture of road graders in Argentina.
NEW MODELS FOR FRANKFURT SHOW
SEVERAL new M.A.N. vehicles will be exhibited at this year's Frankfurt International Motor Show by Maschinenfabrik Augsburg — Nurnberg, A.G., Munich, Germany. They include a forward-control 61-ton oiler with 130 b.h.p. engine. Another is a 7-tonner powered by a 172 b.h.p. oil engine and available in either normalor forward-control versions. as a 4 x 2 or a 4 x 4 and for load carrying or semi-trailer working. New six-wheeled heavy-duty models will also be shown.
New passenger-vehicle exhibits, produced in conjunction with Krauss-Maffei, include a high-capacity air-sprung city bus and a new touring model with 140 b.h.p. underfloor engine.
OBITUARY
WE regret to announce the deaths of MR. J. R. F. BRADFORD, SIR THOMAS MITCHELL and MR. THOMAS TEMPERLEY WALKER.
Mr. Bradford, who was 77, was the immediate past chairman of the Devon and Cornwall area of the Road Haulage Association, and had served in that capacity for 20 years. He died at his home in Torquay.
Sir Thomas was chairman of the Scottish Transport Association from 1935-36. He was 90.
Mr. Walker, who started in business with a horse and cart in 1918. was managing director of T. T. Walker and Son. Newcastle. He was 61.
FORGETFULNESS STOPS WORK DRESSURE. of business had been I responsible for failure to renew his carriers' licence, said Mr. H. Grisedale, Penrith. when he was granted a shortterm licence for his 3-ton lorry by the Northern Licensing Authority. Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, at Kendal last week. Mr. Grisedale said that because of the oversight he had been out of business since the end of July.
Granting the application, Mr. Hanlon said that the renewed application should have been made eight weeks ago, and added. "This is a serious matter."
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