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Sweden is to import Italian vehicles, mponents and tyres this year.
The British Standards Institution, ,ndon, S.W.1, has published a new ndard on brazing, price ls.
The Minister of Transport opened a w mobile cinema and exhibition of Royal Society for the Prevention of :cidents, this week.
An improvement in the fuel situation s allowed the discontinuance of Itrictions on street lighting which re imposed last January.
An attractive Festival of Britain endar with dates from April I, 1951, March 31, 1952, has been issued by : Eyre Smelting Co., Ltd., London, V.19.
By March 31, 22.app1ications for the nfirmation of compensation agreemts had been made to the Transport .bitration Tribunal. Two cases have en decided and compensation paid.
Five-day working is to be resumed Morris-Commercial Cars, Ltd., rmingham, on April 30. About 250 m were given notice last week, cause of the shortage of sheet steel. A new Firestone branch has been opened at Rendle Street, Plymouth.
Accles and Pollock, Ltd., Oldbury, Birmingham, has published a booklet on its range of Dapta scats.
An attractive map showing how to reach the South Bank exhibition, and containing a plan of the site, has been issued by London Transport.
The 1951 edition of its London hotels list has been published by the A.A.
A visit to Holland in May or June. 1952, has been provisionally arranged by the Institute of Transport.
A double day shift is to be reintroduced by Avcling-Barford, Ltd., to deal with heavy orders for export and defence.
Increased transport costs have forced Crocker and Son, Ltd., a large Birmingham baker, to suspend retail bread deliveries.
Branch committees of the Omnibus Passengers' Protection Association haye been formed at Grantham2 Milford Haven and Haverfordwest.
Galion (Gt. Britain), Ltd., a netv company which is building a factory at Wakefield to make earth-moving machinery, has ordered 175 Leyland oil en gines.
The Mercedes-Benz company made 867 lorries and 165 buses in March; .113 lorries and buses (37 per cent. of total output) were exported in the first quarter.