ROAD EXPENDITURE £16,851,552
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TN the year to March 31, 1947, the net
expenditure from the Road Fund, mainly on maintenance and minor improvements, amounted to £16,851,552. compared with £9,069,633 in the preceding year. A balance of £376,932 remained in the Fund. A sum of £360,800 was expended on the road safety campaign.
These facts are contained in the Road Fund Accounts, 1946-47, which have just been published by the Stationery Office at 2d.
CHINA CUTS IMPORTS
TO conserve foreign exchange, the National Economy Council has reduced to 74,720,000 U.S. dollars the exchange available for Chinese imports in the first and second quarters of 1948. Imports of commercial vehicles will be limited to about 200,000 dollars, but Diesel oil is allotted 18,000,000 dollars. The allocation for Diesel oil is the largest individual quota. The quota for petrol is 5,000,000 dollars.
ECHO OF BATTY CASE
-r-HE ex-policeman who appeared at I the resunvel hearina of an application for A licences by Arthur Batty,
Ltd., war engaged the Morecambe and Lancaster Furniture Removers' Association and not by the Morecambe branch of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers. The proceedings were reported in the February 13 issue of "The Commercial Motor."
LIGHT ALLOY SPECIFICATIONS
ORIGINALLY produced in 1940 and reissued several times since that date, a revised edition of "Specifications for Aluminium and Aluminium Alloy Products" has just been produced by the Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., Banbury. Specifications of ingots, sheets and strips, bars for machining and extruding sections, wire and rivets, tubes, bars for forging, forg,ings and castings are given. The book is well indexed and is a valuable addition to the engineer's library.
GUIDE TO GOODS SERVICES
DUBLISHED half-yearly, the "Motor I Transport Goods Guide" to roadhaulage service is now obtainable through booksellers or direct from Iliffe and Sons, ltd., Stamford Street, London, S.F.!, price Is. 641 For the first-time there is included a "goods by air" section, and all other sections. including normal services, machinery carriers and operators of tank wagons, are enlarged.
BLUE PETER IN PICCADILLY
AN exhibition of Blue Peter retreads will be held by University Motors, Ltd., at Stratton House, 80, Piccadilly, London, WI, from March 1-5. The company is handling tyre-retreading business for Auto Tyre Services, Ltd., Basingstoke.
Stewart and Arclern, Ltd., has now completed its removal from its temporary premises at Earls Court to The Vale, Acton, London, W,3.