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News in Brief
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Record • Vauxhall Turnover: Vauxhall Motors Ltd: had a record net sales turnover of more than £188 m. in the year ended December 31 last. Net profit for the year was £8,433,201 compared with £8,267,154 in the previous year.
More for Martin Walter Ltd.: Group profit of Martin Walter Ltd. for the year ended December 31 last was £291,671 (including the post-acquisition profits only of the subsidiary, G. E. Neville and Son Ltd. from Slily 17 to December 31). This compares with a group profit of £201,912 in 1963.
New Name for Bodybuilders: The Cunard Motor and Carriage Co. Ltd., purchased by Stewart and Ardern Ltd. in 1931, has been renamed Stewart and Ardern (CoaChbuilders) Ltd, The products of the company are still known as " Cunard" bodywork. These changes came into effect yesterday (April 1). Address of the company remains the same : Abbeyddle Road, Wembley. Middlesex.
United Tyre and Battery Services: A commercial agreement to provide a nation-wide tyre and battery service has been announced by the Kerry's and Normeir tyre distribution group. -This multi-million group now controls distribution points in all major industrial locations.
Moscow Giant: A new giant truck, the ZIL-135, produced by the Likhachev Motor Works in Moscow, is now undergoing tests in Siberia. The truck is powered by two engines, each of 180 h.p., and has eightwheel drive. On both right and left, the wheels are powered from their own engine, and the truck can continue even if one engine fails. It is nearly 40 ft. long and can carry 10 tons.
International Competition for Glasgow : For the first time during the 14 years that the International Apprentice Competition has been running, the UK is this year the host nation, with Glasgow • the chosen centre. HRH the Duke of Edinburgh has consented to become patron. The competition, which is becoming known as the " Industrial Olympics ", will take place between July 17 and 29. Apprentices and trainees from 13 countries-12 of the most important industrial nations in Europe, and Japan—will compete for the gold, silver and bronze medals to be awarded in 29 classes.
E106,000 Trunk Road Scheme: Work is about to start on the construction of a 1-1mile by-pass of the Suffolk village of Woolpit, on the St. Neots-Ipswich trunk road (A45) between Bury St. Edmunds and Stowmarket. The scheme will cost about £106,000 and should be completed in 18 months. Lanes Veteran Owners Unite: Enthusiasts in the north-west have formed the Lancashire Traction Engine Club, the secretary of which is M. I. D. W. Russell, 45 Melling Lane, Magliull, Lancs. A talk on Foden Tractors ' is to be given by Mr. George Lea on Sunday evening, April 4, at the Horseshoe Inn, Croft, or. Warrington. ERE Distributors in El Salvador : Alfaro Vilanova and Cia, of San Salvador in the Republic of El Salvador, have been appointed ERF distributors. The first vehicle for this new market has already been delivered, and eight more are on order. Sintered Development: Following the purchase of S. K. Wellmann by American Brake Shoe Co., Sintered Products Ltd. has extended its licence agreement with the latter in respect of sintered friction material so that it now includes all material and products manufactured now or in the future by S. K. Wellmann and American Brake Shoe, Voices Changes: The . Manchester offices of Vokes Ltd. and Stream-Line Filters Ltd. (Vokes Group) have been moved to larger premises at: Fourth Floor, Brazennose House, Brazennose Street (tel: Manchester Blackfriars 7395 and 0486). The Vokes Group subsidiary in Holland, De Ridder en Ketch, NV, is now known as Vokes International NV and is carrying on business from the same address: PO Box 27, Krommenie, Holland.
New Parker Depot at Coventry : Frank Parker and Co, Ltd., member of the Ward i group of companies, s now handling supplies of contractors' small tools and protective clothing in the Midlands as well as the north and south of England. The recently completed building at Bayton Road, Exhall, Coventry (tel.: Coventry 87184), will carry comprehensive stocks.
M4 Extension: The proposed route for a further 30 miles of the London-South Wales motorway (M4) in Gloucester and Wiltshire has been published as a draft scheme by the Minister of Transport. The route will run in a general north-easterly direction for some 20 miles from a point about mile south west of Tomarten in Gloucestershire to north of Wootton Bassett, and then in a general south-easterly direction for about 10 miles, passing just south of Swindon, to a point about a mile south east of Liddington in Wiltshire.
Chaseside Forms New German Subsidiary: Chaseside Engineering Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of British Northrop Ltd., Blackburn, which exports its hydraulic four-wheeland twowheel-drive loading shovels to 100 countries, has formed a German company, Chaseside Engineering G,m,b.11., at Frankfurt.