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The spring meeting of the Institute of Welding will be held in Glasgow from April 24-26.
Vehicle exports in February were valued at £41.8m. This sum was less than the average for the last quarter of 1951.
The annual meeting of the northwestern centre of the Institute of Public Cleansing will be held in Man• chester on April 21.
Record orders and sales were achieved by Crypton Equipment, Ltd., in 1951. Exports amounted to nearly 60 per cent. of total sales.
The Latil tractor illustrated with a pole-derrick attachment in the issue dated March 21 was built by U.S. Concessionaires, Ltd., Ascot, Berks.
Twenty lorries of the Luton-Leighton Buzzard group of British Road Services are to he transferred to the divisional pool.
The Milk Marketing Board is refusing to scnd its lorries down pot-holed roads to collect milk from Northumberland County Council smallholdings at East Heddon.
The Northern Area of the Road Haulage Association is to hold a dinner and dance on April 25 at the Old Assembly Rooms, Westgate Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Administrative and engineering activities of Eaton Axles, Ltd., have been centralized at Cleveleys Road, Warrington. Matters concerning spares will continue to be dealt with at 25, Victoria Street, London, S.W.1.
Twenty-four hauliers of the London and Horne Counties branch of Associated Film Carriers have decided to raise their charges. The extent of the increase is yet to be decided. Rhyl Urban District Council has approved a scheme to provide a coach park in Vale Road.
Revised prices for passenger and goods vehicles will be introduced by A.C.V. Sales, Ltd., on April 1.
The spring meeting of the Midland centre of the Institute of Public Cleansing will be held at Wolverhtunpion on May 2.
, Messrs. Hall Bros., South Shields, are to seek to run their service to Coventry all the year round, with a four-times weekly night service in addition.
The Brook Lane works of TricoFolberth. Ltd., were recently visited by the Duchess of Gloucester, who came to see the paraplegic workers employed there.
Chloride Batteries, Ltd., Manchester, has published a new edition of its booklet, "Mechanical Handling Today," London Transport has ordered 84 Guy single-deck oil-engined chassis: 450 Guy double-deckers have been operated in. London during the past eight years.
Fifty-five employees of the Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd., were presented with long-service awards by the managing director, Mr. W. T. James, at Cardiff recently.
'The compilers ot " Who's Who in the Motor Industry," Roland C. Bellamy Publications, St. Mary's Gate, Grimsby, are inviting late entries to make the volume as comprehensive as possible.
Four hundred members of the Passenger. Vehicle Operators' Association in the Bolton area have been advised to raise their excursion and tours fares to 40 per cent. above prewar level to offset the Budget increase in fuel duty.