Sir W. Rootes Claims Biggest Export Quota

26th September 1952, Page 75

26th September 1952

Page 75

Page 75, 26th September 1952 — Sir W. Rootes Claims Biggest Export Quota

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I NTRODUCING the new commercial vehicles and private cars of the Rootes Group, in London, on Tuesday, Sir William Rootes, chairman of the Group, said: "We are earning not only dollars, but currencies from every part of the globe. Indeed, we can quietly boast that in the commercial-vehicle field we believe we have exported a greater proportion of our output than any other United Kingdom manufacturer."

He hoped that the Government would soon solve the iron and steel problem. It was wrong that the steel industry should proceed from crisis to crisis. Moreover, it was unfortunate that that industry had now again raised its prices at a time when commercialvehicle manufacturers, as exporters, had to reduce their prices.

I.T.A. ARRANGEMENTS FORTHCOMING meetings of the London branch of the Industrial Transport Association, to be held at 6.30 p.m. at the Royal Society of Arts, John Adam Street, London, W.C.1, include the following:— October 21, lecture. " An Economist Looks at Road Transport," by Prof. Gilbert Walker.

November 18. lecture on motion study applied to mechanical handling by L. W. Bailey. December 9, lecture on heavy haulage by It. T. Wynn.

January 20, 1953. lecture on paints by L. R. Hickson,

February 17, lecture on oil engines by N. G. Brookes.

March 17, annual general meeting and paper by E. K. Wenlock on road transport law.

April 21, lecture on municipal non-passenget transport by H. N. Cubbage.

Meetings of tha educational society, taking place in Caxton Hall, London, S.W.1, at 7 p.m., are as follows:— November 4, lecture on C-licence operation by C. E. Dixon.

January 6. 1953, lecture on tyres by 1. List. February 3, films on mechanical aid, in industry Presented by K. B. Warwick.

The Leeds depot of the Davies Tyre Co., Ltd., and its associated company, the Re-Cord Tyre Co., Ltd., has been moved to 49, Call Lane, Leeds, 1.