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MATADORS POPULAR WITH BIG OVERSEASsUNRS

25th July 1947, Page 32
25th July 1947
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CIFTY:THREE A.E.t. 'Matador trac

tors tors with 9.6-litre direct-injection oil engines have,heen ordered by the United Africa Co.. Ltd. They will be used in conjunction with pole trailers in Nigeria and on the West Coast of Africa for the transport of heavy timber from forests to sawmills and railheads.

Thisjs,the third large overseas undertaking which, since the war, has specified Matadors. The Iraq 'Petroleum Co.. Ltd., already has 76 pipe-hauling tractors of ,this ]..type, and has now called for a furtlieri&en machines.

Many orders ;RIF passenger vehicles continue to be received from-overseas by the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd. The Adelaide .Tramways Trust. Western Australia, has ordered 20 Regal Mark HI single-deckers;. Messrs. Rover Motors, New South Wal es.' four Regent-Mark ill

double-deckers; Lisbon Meanie Tram, ways, Ltd.,..10 Regal 'Mark III vehicles: and African Explosives and Chemical Industries, Ltd., two Regal Mark Ill models.

GOOD ADVICE ON EDUCATION

SPEAKING last week as the new president of the British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education, Sir Charles Tennyson, secretary to the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., gave some interesting advice on.schooling.

He said that schools and universities should not try to teach young people their jobs; that was the task of industry. Technical and modern secondary schools, however, must work closely with local industries to give their teaching the practical value which had been wanting in the past. Grammar and public schools were still distressingly ignorant of what industry had to offer in the way of careers. It was necessary to endeavour to develop at high speed schemes which would give our available man and woman power the' maximum efficiency, and so enable us to achieve with an ageing population the vastly increased production necessary to permit us to maintain a reasonable standard of life.

BATTERY-ELECTRIC SHOW ON NEW LINES

A SHOW on lines different from 1—k normal is to be staged by_ Silent Transport, Ltd., 26, Courtenay Road, Woking, Surrey, in connection with battery-electric vehicles. Not only will a number of new vehicles be seen, but also visitors will be able to inspect the organization which is set up for the maintenance of these types, and note the emphasis placed upon the need for it. The show will be staged at the company's works at Woking from September 1-5.

GRANTHAM FACTORY DISPOSAL

11-1E factory at Grantham formerly

occupied by Grantham Productions, Ltd., is not to be allocated to the syndicate headed by Mr. L. S. Cotton. Sir Stafford Cripps made this announcement in the House of Commons last week. Aveling-Barford, Ltd., is said to be interested in taking over, the premises.


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