Drop in Southdown Receipts Last Year
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GROSS receipts of Southdown Motor Services. Ltd.. amounting to
£2,980,000 in the past year, showed a decrease for the first time in many years, said Mr. R. P. Beddow. M.Inst.T., chairman, at the company's annual general meeting.
Many steps had been taken to stabilize working costs. but a heavy additional item had now occurred with the increased fuel tax. This would cost the company about £130,000 per annum, An expansion in the company's programme of holiday tours took place. The number of bookines cancelled since the derationing of petrol was small.
Co-ordination arrangements with the railways continued. said Mr. Beddow. Of the company's 150 stage-carriagc services, only 10 per cent, did not serve a railway station. No less than 87 per cent. of the railway stations and halts in the area covered by arrangements with the Southern Region of British Railways were served by at least one Southdown stage-carriage service.
EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES
THE Ministerio de Obras Montevideo, has. issued a request for tenders for the supply of four tractors with B.A. blades. and 60 30-40 h.p. tractors and 30 detachable grass cutters.. Details can be obtained from the Commercial Relations and Exports Department, Board of Trade, London, S.W.1. •
The Department also holds bineprints of the compulsory design Bangkok buses. The U.K. Commercial .Secretary in Bangkok states that there may be an opening for sales of prefabricated body frames.
The Usinas Electricas y Telefonos del Estado, Julio h. y. Obes 1470, Montevideo, requires five pick-up trucks of 1,000-kilog. capacity. Tenders must bz submitted in Spanish by August 2. by local agents.
Although Sfio Paulo and It'o de Janeiro handle over 80 per cent, of Brazil's import trade; British concerns would be advised to investigate the claims of agency houses in those cities purporting to cover the whole of the country. Separate representations in the States of Rio Grande do Sul, Pernambuco. Bah:a and Para should be considered.
I. OF T. GROUP PROMOTED
AS from October the Beds, Carabs and Hunts Group of the Institute of Transport is to be reconstituted as a section. Sir Alfred Faulkner, Eastern Licensing Authority, will be the first chairman of the section. Mr. P. W. R. Marston-Clark, who was instrumental in the formation of the group, will continue as honorary secretary.
The first meeting of the new section will be held on October 18 in Cambridge, when Brig.-Gen. Sir H. Osborne Mance will attend. Mr. M. A. Cameron will present a paper on "Transport in Perspective."
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