Vacuum Enters Petrol Market
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ANOTABLE event concerning the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., and its customers, will take place on January 1, when the company will officially enter the market in liquid fuel. Mr. John Cobb, the well-known racing driver, will be the first person in this country , to buy motor spirit sold under the sign of the "Flying Red Horse."
His purchase will be made at the premises of W. Jacobs and Son, Mill Garage, Chigwell Road, London. E.18.
"STOP BUS NATIONALIZATION"
ANUMBER •of organizations hasjoined the National Chamber ,of Trade in asking the Minister of Transport for an assurance that the nationalization of road passenger transport will proceed no further. The Minister has also been asked that the companies now owned by the British Transport Commission should be returned to private enterprise by means of suitable financial readjustments.
• BODYBUILDERS' MERGERS THE share capital of Messrs. Nudd 1 Bros. and Lockyer, Kegworth, Leics, has been acquired by Duple Motor Bodies, Ltd. Service and repair facilities for Northern and Midland owners of Duple-bodied vehicles will be available at Kegworth, where service-bus bodies and Duple Metsec bodies will also be manufactured.
Great Yarmouth Coachworks, •33a, North River Road, Great Yarmouth. has been taken over by Motivity, Ltd. The North River Road works are under the supervision of Mr. J. A. Phillips, director and general manager of Motivity, Ltd.
NEWCASTLE'S 50th
THE 50th anniversary of Newcastle
on-Tyne's transport system was celebrated last week. Trams were introduced in the city in 1901. Motorbuses began in 1912 and trolleybuses in 1935. The value of the undertaking to-day is about £5m.; the transport department has contributed about £500,000 to the city's finances.