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IVER 1,200 people attended the Austin dinner last Monday. Mr.
. W. Harriman, C.B.E., welcomed r. R. Hanks of the Nuffield Organizain and the numerous suppliers, with -tom the Austin company spent £60m.
the year, whilst 32 foreign markets !re represented.
Mr. Roland E. Dangerfield, Master the Worshipful Company of CoachLiklers and Harness Makers, referred the ki,te Lord Austin and to Mr. P. Lord as outstanding merchant venturers. The great export business the Austin company had greatly
lped in preventing our country from trying. A colossal responsibility ;ted on Mr. Lord's shoulders.
On roads, Mr. Dangerfield said that and others had been pegging away r over 30 years at this subject and at .t there was a glimmer of hope from ) highest levels. Successive Governsnts had failed, but now it was hoped it there would be something more in talk. Market in China?
Responding to the (Oast of the Austin tor Export Corporation, 'Ltd., prosed by Sr. Carlos Goncalves, of rtugal, Col. A. C. R. Waite, M.C., d that no.w Australia had relieved ruing restrictions, he hoped that New aland would follow._ It was portant that new and large markets iuld be developed in the East, paralarly. in China. There were also isibilities in Japan.
[he _Corporation had .exported sidles to the value of £195m. in the it five-_years, compared with under Mi. in the five years preceding the r. The number of commercial sides and cars exported since the 19-45 war was 587,000.
vlr. L. P. ,Lord, replying to a toast )posed by . Mr. R. S. St. Laurent, -2., said that Canada was a marvels market, but it was too close to the ited States and he asked for a free / in the country. The Austin corny was producing over 4,000 vehicles
a week and in a week or so the second millionth vehicle would leave the works.
As regards the Fisher and Ludlow deal, other buyers would get all the bodies they needed.
BULK LOADING DEVICES EASE FUTURE PLANNING DECAUSE of the development of bulk-loading devices, Manchester had no qualms concerning the future necessity of tipping refuse on sites in the central and north zones, said Mr.
• A. E. Barton, the city public cleansing director, when he addressed the autumn meeting of the Institute of Public Cleansing in Manchester last week.
He described a survey of controlled tipping sites in the area which would provide a reserve for over 100 years. The department had a convenient depot where loads could be transferred from collectors to bulk vehicles.