New Atkinson Cab : Exports Increasing
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CAA CAB of more modern design and increased comfort will WWI be fitted to all Atkinson vehicles, said Mr. W. G. Allen, F.C.A., chairman and managing director of Atkinson Lorries (Holdings), Ltd., at the annual general meeting, last week. It would, he said, be as accessible for maintenance as the old design and would help to keep down production costs.
The potential demand for the Alpha underfloor-engined single-decker was far beyond the company's present production.
Exports had increased aqd now represented about 30 per cent. of total output. New markets had been estab lished in Chile, Finland, Egypt and Israel. Substantial business was being
built up in South Africa, and the demand from Portugal, Spain and Australia continued to increase. An export office had been opened in London.
The Nightingale Engineering Co., Ltd., and Coach Bodies, Ltd., continue:.1 to show good and consistent results.
ROAD-RAIL TICKET FOR SCOTLAND-LONDON
THIS week, the Scottish nationalized 1 bus companies and British Railways introduced a combined road-rail ticket available between Edinburgh and London and Glasgow and London. It allows travellers who have made the outward journey by road, a stipulated condition, to return by rail on payment of El (adult) or 10s. (child) at specified railway booking offices.
Under the new arrangement, the following fares are applicable:— Adults' return coach fare, £3; outward road journey and rail return, £4: Children's return coach fare, £1 10s.; by road and rail, £2 NEW SCREW-THREAD MANUAL
ANEW series of handbooks, under the general title "Notes on Applied Science," is being prepared by the National Physical Laboratory, The first, "Gauging and Measuring Screw Threads," has been published by the Stationery Office, price 5s. Up-to-date and comprehensive, it contains two appendices which give tables of symbols agreed at the 1945 Ottawa conference on the unification of engineering standards, and numerical data on the " Unified " thread adopted by Britain, Canada and the U.S.A.
COLOMBO WANTS DIRECT POWERS
REPRESENTATIONS may be made to the Ceylon Minister of Transport by Colombo Municipal Council so that it can be given the eght to operate trolleybuses in any part of the city. Under the new Motor Traffic Act, permission has to be obtained from the Commissioner of Motor Transport.
The council's finance committee has already 2pproved the expenditure of Rs, 1.6m. for equipment. Twenty vehicles have been ordered in Britain and 15 have already been delivered.