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WALKER BROS. IN MERGER TO CEMENT AGREEMENT

31st October 1947
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AS"a formal acknowledgment" of a working agreement which has existed between Walker Bros. (Wigan), Ltd., and County Commercial Cars, Ltd., since before the war, those two companies have jointly formed a new concern called Walkers and County Cars, Ltd. This new organization will handle several products patented by the parent companies and, in particular, the "telescopic" body for vehicles, which has been protected by County Commercial Cars, Ltd.

This type of body discharges its load horizontally and is claimed to increase chassis life by removing the stresses imposed in elevating the body by means of the normal tipping gear. The principle is being applied to generalpurpose vehicles, as well as to refuse collectors, in which Walker Bros. (Wigan), Ltd., has specialized for more than 25 years.

To supplement the service facilities offered at Pagefield Iron Works, Wigan, a service depot will be established in or near London. For the time being, Walkers and County Cars, Ltd., will use Pagefield Iron Works as its sales office.

The board a the new company is drawn equally from the two concerns. Mr. P. J. R. Tapp, C.B.E., Me., chairman of County Commercial Cars, Ltd., and of the Meat Transport Organization, is chairman, and Mr. Densmore Walker, director of Walker Bros. (Wigan), Ltd., is managing director.

B.I.O.S. SERVICE IMPROVEMENT

AS from November 3, inquiries as to German and Japanese reports in the B.I.O.S. series, formerly directed to B.T.O.S. at 32-37, Bryanston Square, London, W.1, and applications to

examine original German documents, formerly addressed to Documents Unit, German Division, Board of Trade, Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, London. W.1, will be dealt with by the 'Technical Information and Documents Unit. German Division, Board of Trade, 40, Cadogan Square, London, S.W.I.

The two units have combined with a view to centralizing the work, and to give an improved service to the industry on rcports and documents..

SAVE YOUR SCRAP

AV the instance of the Iron and Steel Board, the Ministry of Transport is asking all members of the road transport industry to conserve scrap metal, so that the steel-production target may be attained.

MOTOR EXPORTS THIS YEAR WILL BRING £100,000,000

NEARLY £100,000,000 was the record sum expected from the export of commercial vehicles and cars this year, said Mr. G. R. Strauss, Minister of Supply, at the Vauxhall works, at Luton, last week. If realized, this figure would far exceed the pre-war record of 1937, when private cars and commercial vehicles exported raised £8,000,000 and £4,000,000 respectively.

The importance cif the export drive was illustrated in the statement that, for each car exported, the week's meat ration for 10,000 people would be assured. • Mr. Strauss, after driving off the assembly line the 500,000th Bedford commercial vehicle, said that they had been produced for the past 16 years at the rate of one every four minutes.

Sir Charles Bartlett, managing director of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., announced (he company's production of more left-hand-drive vehicles, and said that vehicles exported during the first nine months of this year exceeded figures for any full year before the war CLEANSING OFFICERS TO MEET IN STOCKPORT

A MEETING of the Institute of Public 1-1 Cleansing is to be held in Stockport on November 6-7. An open meeting, with an official welcome by the Mayor of Stockport, Coon, R. E. Gurney, is arranged for Friday, November 7, at 2.15 p.m., at the Town Hall, Stockport. A paper on "Ancillary Administrative Systems in the Cleansing Department" by Mr. C. V Roberts, M.I.P.C., cleansing superintendent of Stockport, will follow the welcoming address

HARRINGTON METAL BODIES: EXPECTATIONS EXCEEDED

REVIEWING the past year at the company's annual general meeting, Mr. E. G. Harrington, chairman of Thomas Harrington, Ltd., stated that although only in the early production stages, the all-metal bus section was progressing quicker than expected: This section, concerned wholly with export, was receiving many inquiries for contracts, and had already shipped bodies to the Gold Coast, the Middle East and Portugal. .


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