Belgium to Build Foden Integral Bus ?
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IT is understood that Fodens Ltd..
Sandbach, may link up with Ateliers Metallurgique, the Belgian specialist in the construction of lightalloy vehicles, to produce an integralconstruction passenger vehicle employing Foden components.
A prototype model is displayed at the Brussels Show. Equipped to carry 42 seated and 43 standing passengers it weighs 7 ions 8 cwt. unladen. Mr:J. F. Foden is at present at the Show and will discuss the possibility of production with Ateliers Metallurgique,
That company, formeth noted for the manufacture of railway roiling stock, displayed light-alloy integrally constructed buses at'Brussels last year. A vehicle was then shown with Leyland components, and a 'Budd trolley bus to be built under licence in Belgium, was exhibited.
This year there is a Marmon-Herring1.011 trolleybus which is to be built in Belgium by Ateliers Metallurgique, LUTON TO BRING IN CONSULTANTS? '
ALTHOUGH the corporation transport department is already incurring an annual deficit of £16,000, Luton' Town Council is to eonsider a proposal to employ a firm of consultants for six months, at a cost of 13,000, to advise on the operation of the undertaking.
A recommendation to this effect, to be considered at a council meeting next Tuesday, has been made by the committee set up to consider the reasons for the losses suffered by the tranSport department.
LEAD ON TORY POLICY"?
I.T was expected that Mr. G. Nabarro, M.P., would make sortie important pronouncements when he addressed the annual_ general meeting of the Road Passenger and Transport Association, yesterday. He was to speak on "Road Transport under a Conservative Government." covering both passenger
and goods transport. •