Exports Up: Control of Prices Needed
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nESPITE a short early setback, the
motor industry's export trade improved later in 1953 and continued to do so during the first few months of this year. Nevertheless, overseas markets had become selective and discriminating in price, and there was no. doubt that one of the outstanding problems was how to control and, where applicable. reduce selling prices.
Mr. W. R. Black, president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, made this observation when he addressed the Society's annual meeting last week. He believed that the industry's natural expansion was being strangled by the Government's failure to appreciate the magnitude of the road problem. Present plans fell woefully short of making any real contribution to the long-term solution, and the Society intended that the subject should not be overlooked.
When the new laboratories and testing ground of the Motor Industry Research Association were opened next month, there would be reason to be proud of this great project, Mr. Black stated.
TICKETS FOR ANY PARK I T was alleged at Hull last week that a café at Ashby-de-la-Zouch supplied drivers with vehicle parking tickets bearing the names of a variety of places.
Two drivers pleaded guilty to obtaining 2s. 6d. by claiming parking fees when they had not paid anything, also to falsifying their expenses sheets. They were fined 13 on each count.
Prosecuting for the British Transport Commission, Mr. P. Moore said that British Road Services' drivers were handing in tickets purporting to have come from different places, but they all had the same design. The tickets came from a café at Ashby; he said, and the matter was being dealt with elsewhere.
One driver, it was stated, had stolen a number of the spurious tickets and distributed them among Hull drivers.
200 YEARS OF TRANSPORT r't
A 50-YEAR-OLD horsed bus which
was in regular service from Tenterden railway station, Kent, until 1924, is one of the main exhibits in a display tracing the evolution of road and rail vehicle design through two centuries. Arranged by the British Transport Commission, the exhibition will be open at Euston Station, London, until September 25. There is an admission charge of Is, for adults and 6d. for children.
NEW N.Z. TAX SCALE ANEW scale of taxation for heavy vehicles, which will add 1750,000 to existing revenue, is to be introduced in New Zealand on June 1. Monies will pass to the National Roads Fund: created by legislation last year. and administered by the National Roads Board.