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Bristol branch of the industrial Transport Association will hold a brains trust at the Grand Hotel, Bristol, at 7 p.m. on July 8.
Schemes for producing carbon black for tyres in this country are being investigated by an Interdepartmental Committee of the Board of Trade.
On April 1, 1947, there were 108 fewer Civil Servants at the Ministry of Transport than there were on January 1, respective figures being 2,391and 2,499.
When a recent repeat order for 10 Guy Vixen chassis has been completed, the Rio de Janeiro Tramway, Light and Power Co., Ltd., will have 158 vehicles of that make.
The Telegraph Condenser Co., Ltd., North Acton, London, W.3, has published a new catalogrie* of its range of ignition condensers for many different commercial vehicles.
The Minister of Transport is expecting a report on road vehicle lighting from the Road Research Board. He is making inquiries into the French heavyvehicle lishring system.
Three of the four sizes of tyre fitted to the International Farmall 1-1 tractor are now being made in this country. A consignment of the fourth size is shortly due to arrive from the U.S.A.
If a supplier of tyres be unable to obtain immediate delivery of ambulance tyres from the manufacturers, he should report the facts to the Tyre Manufacturers' Conference, stated Mr. Belcher, Under-Secretary to the Board of Trade, last week. • Because of pressure on space, the patents review has been held from this issue.
Licences have been issued since August, 1946, for the importation of 7,575 tractor tyres from the U.S.A.
Hull Health Department's vehicles travelled 146,471 miles during 1946, the ambulances carrying 6,895 patients, without accident.
Mr. H. A. Marquand, Paymaster General, on Monday watched the 250,000th Fordson tractor leave the assembly line at Dagenham.
OBITUARY
-rim death has occurred of MR. 1 ROBERT URWR1, transport manager of Smith and Walton, Ltd., Haltwhistle. He was 61 years old.