Mr. Marples Seeing for Himself •
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nURING the Christrnas recess, Mr.
Ernest Marples, Minister of Transport, is making a lightning tour of Germany and the United States to inspect recent developments in road and bridge building and parking arrangements.
In Germany, he will see two new bridges over the Rhine at Cologne, offstreet parking facilities and a mechanical parking system operated by departmental stores. On the 100-mile journey, to Frankfurt, he will inspect two elevated roads, a three-span continuous steel bridge and a three-span pre-stressed concrete bridge over the Moselle at Coblenz.
Fn route to America, Mr. Marples intends to examine the working of the Paris " disc " parking system and the construction work of a number of urban underpasses. In the United States he will visit Washington, Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. He will be accompanied by Mr. A. Goldstein and Mr. J. F. Pain, who will advise him on technical aspects.
CONSENT OVER INFRINGEMENT
JUDGMENT by consent was given by Mr. Justice Lloyd-Jacob in the Chancery Division last week in favour of Fluidrive Patents, Ltd., Worton Road, Isleworth, Middx, in an action against Crofts (Engineers), Ltd., Empire Works, Thornbuty, Bradford, for infringement of a patent.
Mr. Douglas Falconer, for Fluidrive, said that they owned a patent relating to hydraulic couplings. The action had been settled. The defendant company would be restrained from infringing the patent, and pay £450 agreed damages and costs.
VOORTREKKER FOR S.A. A NEW passenger chassis has been r-k introduced in South Africa by Leyland-Albion (Africa), Ltd. Known as the Voortrekker, it has been produced specifically for use over cross-country routes in the Union. It is the first Leyland design to incorporate a reasonable percentage of South African-manufactured components, and is fitted with two-pedal control.
The first 12 Voortrekkers are to be operated by Greyhound Bus Services. Bodies are to be built in Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth.
SETTLED OUT OF COURT
PAA CASE concerning John Samuel Shipping, Ltd., and a number of hauliers which was to have been heard at Southwark County Court on Monday, was settled out of court.
A spokesman for the company said that the matter had arisen from "a dispute between ourselves and other people. It has been brought to a sensible conclusion."
He declined to give details of the dispute.