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MILLBURN MOTORS, LTD., Glasgow, arc opening up the disused Wallace Foundry at Dundee at the end of this month to build aluminium vehicle bodies and articulated trailers. The firm are agents for Leyland, Albion, Scammell and Coventry Climax fork-trucks.
Mr. Robert Sanderson, a director of the company, told a representative of The Commercial Motor that they were now building up stocks of spare parts and building materials for the new premises. "We intend to employ ten. men to start with," he said, "but we hope to increase that to about 100 within a year. Our eventual aim is to make the Dundee centre as large as our Glasgow premises where we have 400 men."
The foundry, with its overhead cranes, explained Mr. Sanderson, was particularly suited for the building and repairing of bodies and trailers. The repair section would be capable of dealing with the fuel injection units of both lorries and ships.
Mr. Alex G. MeAra. of the Dundee firm, Alexander McAra. who have held the Albion agency for an area stretching from Perth to Stonehaven. including the north of Fife, said his firm were giving up the agency at the end of this month in view of Millburn Motors' decision to open up in Dundee.
Airport Link to End
airline, BKS, which hires coaches to carry passengers to the munici. pally owned Leeds-Bradford airport al Yeadon, has warned the authorities thal it will cancel the coach link with Brat. ford at the end of the month. The) state they are losing £20 a day on thc operation.
Aer -Lingus, a -major operator at tht airport, are asking the authorities tc provide a shelter equipped with a tele phone so that passengers can call fo transport to pick them up. The publii bus stop is a quarter of a mile from thi airport buildings.
Fewer Passengers
THE number of passengers carried b Belfast Corporation transport con tinues to fall.
Figures disclosed at last week's meetin of the transport committee show tha from April 1 to August 20 this yea 896.933 fewer passengers were curie( compared with the same period last yea There was a fall of 577,811 on trolle) buses and 319,122 on diesel buses.
At the same time mileage covered h both types of buses increased by 24,20 for trolleybuses and 55,247 for diesels.
DINNER DATE
THE annual dinner of the Wigs and District Excursion and Tots Operators' Association is to he held c Wednesday. December 6. at the Brock Arms Hotel, Wigan.