Growing Orders For A.C.V. Sales
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AN increase in orders from home and overseas operators is reported by A.C.V. Sales, Ltd. Twenty-five Regals are to be sent to Melbourne Tramways, Australia. 20 to Netherlands Railways. 15 to The Hague municipality, Holland, and 67 Reliance models to Wellington
City Council, New Zealand.
At home, George Wimpey and Co.. Ltd., have ordered 50 Mammoth Major six-wheelers, whilst Harold Wood and Sons, Ltd., are to have 20 Mammoth Major eight-wheelers, R.A.H. Transporters, Ltd., three, and Hansons Haulage, Ltd., six.
Thirty-nine Regents are required by Rhondda Transport Co., Ltd., whilst Great Yarmouth Corporation 'need five, Morecambe and Heysham Corporation five, and Doncaster Corporation two.
The East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., have ordered 22 Reliance vehicles, a model of which Yelloway Motor Services. Ltd., require six and Percy D. Sleeman, Ltd., six. • Aberdeen County Council have ordered 11 Mercury vehicles, S. Ball and Son (Transport), Ltd., eight, Harold Wood six, and R.A.H. Transporters five.
OPERATORS AGAINST PROPOSED SPEED LIMIT
REPRESENTATIONS against proposals by the corporation to impose a 20 m.p.h. speed limit along the Victoria . Embankment, Nottingham. were made by the Road Haulage Association and the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association at a Ministry of Transport public inquiry last week. At the present time, part of the Embankment has a 30 M.p.h. limit and the remainder is unrestricted.
OFF TO EGYPT
TRAVELLING in a specially char/ tered B.O.A.C. aircraft, 53 British executives of Suez Contractors (Vehicles), Ltd., flew out to Fayid, Egypt, last week. Suez Contractors (Vehicles), Ltd., a company formed by Rctotes, Austin and A.C.V. to maintain vehicles left behind by the Army in the Canal Zone, is headed by Mr. W. R. Black, ehairmatuof A.C.V. Sales, Ltd.