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Godfrey Davis (Car Hire) Ltd. has ordered 70 Ford Transit 30 cwt. vans with special bodies by Gamer Motors Ltd. of Sunbury, Middlesex. Capacity is 350 cu. ft. 90 more than production versions. The 30 cwt. vans cost 10s. an hour. E3 a day, or £16 a week. A special Monday morning to Friday evening rental costs £13. Mileage rate is 6d.
The seventh associate company in the Metalock (Blitain) Ltd. UK organization has been formed. Known as Metalock (Bristol) Ltd., the new company has its head office at Clark House. 29, Newfoundland Street. Bristol. Metalock (Scotland) Ltd.. an associate company of Metalock (Britain) Ltd., has opened a branch office in Aberdeen at 59/63. Wellington Street. Pootdee.
Chloride Electrical Storage Co. Ltd. Group profit after taxation for the six months to June 30 was £500,000, compared with £790,000 for the same period last year.
David Brown Gear Industries Ltd., of Huddersfield. has won a Russian order, worth about £80,000, for David Brown 18T Involute and Helix measuring machines and similar machines of the David BrownOrcutt range. designed for measuring the accuracy of gears.
Appointed official Guy distributors am: Macrae and Dick Ltd., 36 Academy Street, Inverness; Aberdeen Motors Ltd., 12 Union Row, Aberdeen: Steels Commercials (Gloucester) Ltd., Eastern Avenue. Gloucester; Stour Valley Trucks Ltd., Perk Road, Cradley, Staffordshire; R. J. Evans and Kitchen Ltd., Horsefair. Birmingham 1; Moir and Baxter Ltd., Comely Bank. Edinburgh 4: Maskells (Brixton) Ltd., 297 Brixton Road. London SW9: Cartaw Cars Ltd., 31 Finnieston Street, Glasgow Cl.
Clayton Dewandre Holdings Ltd., has declared a same-again interim dividend on the Ordinary share capital for the year ending December 31. 1967, of 6 per cent. Group pre-tax surplus of trading for the six months to June 30, 1967, was £624,482 (1966—£410,3531 )1965—£535,170). Chairman Mr. S. J. Barnes says: "Our order book remains high".
John Brown and Co. Ltd. reports pretax net profits of £1,464,000 for the year to March 31, 1967, adding: We -neither make nor invite comparison of this result with the grievous loss of the previous
year". It prefers to regard as its yardstick of successtheyears 1961,1962. and 1963 in each of which profits exceeded £4m....
. . . The report says that the John Brown Group subsidiary Cravens Industries, after making provision for terminal losses on rolling stock business and after taking into account a loss by the Sheffield body works, made an overall loss of about £690,000. Its commercial vehicle body business made a profit and "manufacture of containers under the Strick Licence has started promisingly, though caution is being exercised in acceding to frequent requests for long-term credit The southern area sales office of James Booth Aluminium Ltd. is now located at Dawley Road, Hayes. Middlesex. (Phone 01-573 5557.)