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Argentina has ordered 200 Japanese trolleybuses, reported to cost about U.S. S6m. * * * A 25-ton ,lorry, over 25 ft. long and 10 ft. wide, is being made at Minsk, according to Moscow radio.
A motor ship, the "Countess of Breadalbane," at present operating onLoch Awe, is to be brought south to the Firth of Clyde by road. • Advertisements for alcoholic liquor are still to be banned from Glasgow municipal vehicles, although revenue of 110,000 a year will be lost.
W. H. Gatward, Ltd., 14-17, Sandling Road, Maidstone, has been appointed • Thornycroft vehicle distributor for the South-easiern Traffic Area.
, The purchase tax on the Trojan 15' chassis, the basic price of which is
£425. ha's been reduced from £106 6s. id. to £102 13s. lid.
Transport nationalization in Madras had failed, it was stated at the Provincial Conference of Motor Transport held recently at Trichinopoly, South
India. -* Ten senior traffic inspectors ofGlasgow Transport Department have been presented with first-aid certificatesand badges of the St. Andrew's Ambulance Association.
• Eighteen -employees of the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., and 15 of the Yorkshire traction Co., Ltd., were recently presented with awards for 25 years' continuous service.
Mr. F. F. Fowler, nationai chairman, will respond to the toast of the Association at the annual luncheon of the East Midland area, of the Road Haulage Association, at the Welbeck Hotel, Nottingham, on March 12.
Because the reasons for the Chatham bus accident have been determined in criminal proceedings against the driver. the Minister of Transport has reversed his decision to hold a public inquiry.
Record sales of used commercial vehicles, last year, were reported by Mr. Robert Braid, chairman and managing director of the Braid Group. Ltd., at the company's annual meeting, last week.
Thanks have been received from H.M. The Queen and N.M. Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, by the Institute of Road Transport Engineers, following messages of 'sympathy sent on the death of King George VI.
The annual dinner of Reading subarea of the Road Haulage Association will be held on March 12 at Grosvenor House, Caversham. Southampton subarea's annual dinner will take place on March 14 at the Polygon Hotel, Southampton.