.ad Year for Duple: Coach Orders Fall
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'XCEPTIONAL difficulties were A experienced last year by Duple otor Bodies, Ltd., Mr. Herbert R. hite, chairman, told the shareholders Monday. There was a heavy reducn in the demand for luxury coaches, iich had always formed the backbone the company's business.
The incidence of fuel tax had tipped scales in favour of the oil-engined sicle, as compared with the petrolgined chassis upon which Duple proction had hitherto mainly been based. reeve'', many orders formerly :eived from concerns that had been tionalized were now executed by the itish Transport Commission.
ro make up for the shortage of cornatial orders, rearmament work had .tn accepted. .
Drders were coming in satisfactorily J, subject to the full availability of sssis of the types required, a marked ;overy during the current year could expected. No dividend was to be
:d on the ordinary shares for 1952
D TO SAFE DRIVING AT DUSK IEW spectacles with sodium-vapourtinted lenses produced by the Fish itical Co., Ltd., 261 Harrow Road, ndon, W.2, have been tested by a
• mber of the staff of The Commercial tor, who substantiates the company's im that they are effective aids to ion when driving at dusk or at night mg badly illuminated streets.
The effect of the yellow tint of the .sses is to accentuate the contrast .ween different objects, and to ieliorate the glare of oncoming headsps. Known as Roadmaster driving glasses, the spectacles cost from 16s. 2d. to 17s. 6d., according to style. Models with a mercury tint to the upper segments of the lenses cost 24s. 6d.-29s. 6d.
CASE WOULD DISAPPEAR THE case for free enterprise in trans' port would. disappear if restrictions were placed upon C-licensees, Said Mr. C. E. Jordan, national vice-chairman of the Traders' Road Transport Association, when he addressed the East and West Midland Divisions on Tuesday. The trader running his own fleet, he said, was fully aware that transport costs were secondary to customer service.
KRUPrS BUILD 6 x 6
A NEW German vehicle, a six-wheelf drive Krupp, was demonstrated to military experts at Bonn last Friday. Ten manufacturers displayed lorries ranging from general-purpose 15-cwt. outfits to 10-tanners. They were said to be standard vehicles converted to front-wheel drive.
ANOTHER PIONEER GOES WITH the acquisition by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., of the Hinckley-Burbage service of Messrs. James Robinson and Sons, the last private bus service on the route has disappeared Messrs. Robinson were, 30 years ago, pioneers in the district. They will continue to operate excursions
NEW TRIPLEX DIRECTOR
Tfill the vacancy created by the death of Sir William Scott Douglas, deputy chairman of the Triplex Safety Glass Co., Ltd., Field-Marshal Lord Atanbrooke has been nominated for election to the board.