Brush Drops Fourwheeled Electrics MANUFACTURE of four-wheeled 1 1 11 electric vehicles
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has been discontinued this year by Brush Coachwork. Ltd. " We have not gone out of the business and our development and research activities on electric vehicles are continuing," a spokesman of the company told " The Commercial Motor." The Pony and industrial truck are still being made.
The "breathing space" is being used to give the company an opportunity to study further the problems of manufacturing and marketing battery-electric vehicles.
A new electric three-wheel-drive tractor is described on page 103.
• DEVALUATION RAISES • OPERATING COSTS
DEVALUATION will add at least £50,000 this year to the running costs of Glasgow Transport Department. The bill for . oil fuel will be increased by /35,000. This will lessen the advantage expected from the new policy of accepting advertising on the vehicles and from better terms on borrowing which have been conceded, after much pressure. by the Public Works Loans Boards.
LUNCH-TIME LECTURES ON EXPORT
TWENTY lunch-time lectures have I been arranged by the Institute of Export to be held between March 7 and August 1 inclusive. They will deal with financial and legal aspects of export and will be given by live wellknown speakers.
The venue is the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, W.C.2. Tickets are available from the Institute of Export, 140, Cromwell Road, London, S.W.7.
U.S.A. OUT FOR NIGERIAN MARKET
BRIT1SH vehicle makers may find opposition in Nigeria as a result of a visit to that country of Mr. M. A. C. Aubry, of the export division of the Chrysler Corporation, of Detroit. Michigan. The purpose of his visit was to study the requirements of the Nigerian market for lorries and cars.
Mr. Aubry told a Nigerian journalist .hat he expected to overcome the import 7estriotions.
He has also visited Dakar, the Gold Coast and other British and French Territories.
L.T.E. CHAIRMAN TO SPEAK
L01WLATHAM, chairman of the La London Transport Executive, will speak at an informal luncheon of the Institute of Transport, to be held on February 28 at the Connaught Rooms, London, W.C.2.
The South Wales and Monmouthshire Section of the Institute will hold its annual dinner at the Royal Hotel, Cardiff, on March 2_ Brig.-Gen. Sir H. Osborne Mance. president, will be present.
Mr. A. F. Neal will speak on "Road Passenger Transport in the New National Transport Scheme" at a meeting of the North Staffordshire group, to be held on March 3.
NEW WOLF TOOLS SIX new solderguns have been introduced by Wolf Electric Tools, Ltd.. London, W.5. Models are available for many purposes, ranging from instrument making to heavy-duty work. Economy in current consumption is effected by localizing heat around the copper bit, it is claimed
WHERE WORKERS STAY •
VORTY-SIX employees of the South
1 Wales Transport Co., Ltd., last week received long-service certificates and medals. SiXteen per cent. of the staff have now served for 25 or more years.
Mr. Raymond Birch, chairman. speaking at the presentation ceremony, said he thought that the South Wales
Transport Co., Ltd., was of a size best suited to the maintenance of personal relationships.
VALUABLE NEW MARKET
THE n e w Morris-Commercial Diesel-engined vehicle is fully justifying our optimism and has opened up an entirely new and valuable market," said Mr. Gordon Stewart, chairman and joint managing director of Stewart and Ardern, Ltd., at the company's annual general meeting, last• week.
HIGHER TAX IN MAY
AS from May 1 next, extra duty will have to be paid on goods vehicles used by local authorities to tow refusecollection trailers. This change is made under the Refuse Trailers (Termination of Excise Relief) Order, 1950.