Soaking the U.S. Haulier
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TO raise an extra 900m. dollars a year for the carrying through of a largescale motorway-building plan, due to be completed in 1972, President Kennedy has recommended the raising of the vehicle tax on heavy goods vehicles in America from 1.50 dollars to 5 dollars per short ton, the increasing of diesel fuel tax from 4 cents to 7 cents per gallon and the introduction of slight increases in the tax on tyres and inner tubes. Petrol tax will be unchanged.
The Republic of Mali has purchased 350 goods vehicles from the Essen concern, Fried. Krupp Motoren-und Kraftwagenfabriken Essen, of the Krupp Group.
Last year some 17,200 goods vehicle and 2,100 motor buses were produced in Poland, and by 1965 the annual rate of production is to be raised to, respectively. 35.000 units and 3,700 units. By that year the country's long-distance bus fleet is to total 11,500 tons.
During the first half of last year Ghana imported 378 trucks and lorries worth £557,773 and 1,429 chassis with engines worth £1,295,391, compared with 348 trucks and lorries worth £418,583 and 743 chassis with engines worth £679,990 over the same half-year of 1959. Over the same period imports into Nigeria of chassis, with engines, of trucks and lorries fell from 2,014 to 1,421 units.