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,i_J-OPES that bus ' and heavy-vehicle 1 Operators may have had of obtaining new vehicles in the near future received a jolt last week, when the • Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders announced that makers of Such vehicles have volunteered to raise their export quota from 33i per cent. to 40 per cent.
The motor industry was asked to • raise the export quota of cars from 50 per cent. to 75 per cent., but devised the alternative method of increasing exports to 60 per cent, and raising the proportion of heavy commercial vehicles to be sent abroad.
The S.M.M.T. also stated that it was against putting purchase tax on utility 'vehicles, as proposed by. the Treasury. Several makers were tooting up for the production of steel-bodied utilities, and if purchase tax were applied the home market would be dried up.
Attention is being given to the .;landarclization of bus components in endeavour to speed up production.
IS INSURANCE COVER NEEDED FOR DUMP TRUCKS?
IF a dump truck be used on a public Iroad, must it be covered by insurance? Bradford Stipendiary Magistrate (Dr. F. 1. Co. Coddington) last week held that a dumper, which when properly used was exclusively for work on building sites, was not a vehicle under the Road Traffic Act, 1930, and that there was no compulsion to obtain insurance cover for it.
On the other hand, he fined a building . limn' a total of 140-for carrying goods in a dumper. on a high road without a .licence and for using the machine with.out a Road Funcl.licence. The driver was also fined 10s:for the latter offence.
• • MORE STEEL SOON?
IN •the House of Commons last week 'the Minister of Supply said that he hoped to be able to maintain the present allocation of steel to the motor industry during the third quarter, and that it might be possible to improve the allocation for the fourth quarter.
Hope of an increase in steel supplies • through imports was also expressed by Sir Stafford •Cripps, President of the Board of Trade, when he visited the ,works of David Brown Tractors, Ltd.