NEWS I U.S. Sales Brisk: The New Year found business
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booming for American lorry dealers. In the first 10 days of January, 10,712 Chevrolet and 8,555 Ford trucks were sold-30 per cent up on the corresponding period last year. Dodge dealers sold 1,148
lorries 55 per cent more than a year earlier.
New Goodrich Tyres: A new wear-resistant rubber is used in the Extra Miler lorry tyre recently introduced by B. F. Goodrich of Cleveland, Ohio. The company claims an average of 32 per cent more mileage from this tyre than from othes tyres of similar price, Burmese Assembly: The Hino Motor Co. Ltd., of Japan, has signed an agreement with the Burmese Government and a Rangoon firm covering the future assembly in Burma of Hino motor buses and goods vehicles. The contract covers a period of 10 years; some 300 buses and 300 lorries will be assembled in the first year, 200 buses and 600 lorries in the second year and annually 50 buses and 600 lorries in the following years. German Credit for Venezuela : The Federal German Government has put credit amounting to six million U.S. dollars at the disposal of the municipal authority of Caracas, Venezuela, for the purchase abroad of 200 motorbuses.
New Offices: The Birmingham area and branch offices of Bowmaker Ltd. have been moved. to Canterbury House, Newhall Street, Birmingham, 3. (Telephone Central 0804-9.) The Bristol branch has moved to Bridge House, Baldwin Street, (Bristol 293256-8).
Hymatic Distributors: The Hymatic Engineering Co. Ltd., of Redditch, Worcs, has appointed Norman McNaughton and Sons Ltd. 101 Corporation Street, Belfast, as official distributor of the HymaticHydrovane range of mobile and portable compressors.
Starter Batteries Standard: Car battery manufacturers have asked the British Standards Institution to draw up a standard for starter batteries, chiefly with the object of standardizing dimensions.