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In our issue dated September 9 on page 144, the A.B.C. double-decker was
a Regent Mark III.
The Scottish Motor Show will be opened on November 11, 1949, by Viscount Weir of Eastwood.
Birmingham Corporation is discontinuing a further tram service on
October 2. Buse-s will take over. *
America believes that it could produce petrol from coal at 2d. per gallon above the cost of the natural fuel.
-Last week some 1,500 employees of Duple Motor Bodies, Ltd., went on strike for, it is believed, the suspension of a shop steward.
The Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association has compiled a summary of routes approved by Licensing Authorities as suitable for 8-ft. buses.
A range of Morris-Commercial vehicles will be on show at Stewart and Ardent, Ltd., The Vale, Acton, London, W.3, from September 28 to October 8.
Three N.C.B. battery-electric dairy trucks art being delivered to Wellington, New Zealand; the' first to be exported, by Smith's Electric Vehicle's, Ltd.
In the first 'six.'' months of 1949, Holland ,imported 244 buses, 1,490 lorries, 90 tractors and 2,260 vans. British-built vehicles were: buses, 73; lorries, 495; tractors, 34; vans, 573.
During. the Motor Show, a comprehensive range of Commer and Karrier vehicles will be exhibited at the Lord's Court showrooms of Rootes, Ltd., St. John's Wood Road, London, N.W.8.
The Chatham office of the Metropolitan and South-eastern area of the Road Haulage Association will be closed on September 24. The new area office will be at 62, Oxford Street, London, W.I.
BLISSFUL IGNORANCE: MHEN the Northern Licensing VV Authority at Stockton on Tees refused art application by Mr. James Hill, of Blackhall Rocks, to operate three additional vehicles, two farmers who supported the application said that they did not know the Road' Haulage Executive could supply vehicles. Mr. C. Tarn, appearing for Mr. Hill, said That the public could not use the R.H.E. as it had never heard of it. Mr. C. Stevens, manager of a unit of the R.H.E. at West Hartlepool, said that the question of advertising the R.H.E. was a matter for the head office.
STATE TRANSPORT APPEAL
AN appeal by the Railway Executive and H. and G. Duffield (B.T.C.), Ltd., against a decision of the Metropolitan Licensing Authority will be heard from September 28-30 at Halifax House, Strand, London, W.C.2, before the Appeal Tribunal. The respondent is Charles Chapman, Ltd.