AMERICAN EXPORT TRADE REVIVING.
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The complete returns now available for 1935 show that there was a slight revival, last year, in the overseas demand for American commercial vehicles. The shipments from the United States totalled 99,080 vans, lorries, buses and chassis of an estimated value of £10,016,487, compared with 92.273 and £8,841,461 respec tively in 1934. .
Of the total, 9,982 units were for loads up to 20 cwt.; 72,103, 20-30-cwt. ; 14.057,11-2i. tons; 2,403, over 2i tons ; 266 bus chassis and 269 second-hand vehicles. The principal markets for American commercial vehicles are Japan, Brazil, India, the Argentine, Belgium and Australia.
Licence Loaned: £15 Fine.
As a result of a prosecution at Dunfermline Sheriff Court, last Friday, said to be the first of its kind, Mr. James W. Soutar, haulage contractor, Garnshiel, Abbotswell Road, Aberdeen, was fined £15. He pleaded guilty to a charge, under Section 34 (1) of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, of lending or allowing to be used by the Woodside Haulage Co., Kirkcaldy, a licence disc granted to him by the Northern Scotland Licensing Authority.
Sheriff Umpherston informed the defendant that he was liable to a penalty of £100, or four months' imprisonment. , Canine Cargo by Morris-Commercial.
Stewart and Ardern, Ltd., Acton, 'London, W.3, has recently supplied a Morris-Commercial 3-ton forwardcontrol van, equipped with a special .Esanday body, to the Hendon Greyhound Stadium for the transport of greyhounds to the Hackney Wick and Hendon Stadiums; the vehicle is illustrated on this page.
The interior is reached by two side doors, and it is possible to convey 40. dogs at a time. There are five cubicles on the floor level on both sides of each gangway and five above them, making 20 in each half. These cubicles have rubber flooring and are constructed so as to prevent any bruising or rubbing. A special ventilation system is incorporated to ensure that the dogs travel in comfort and at a suitable temperature, vital factors in the conveyance of valuable and delicate animals.
£60,000 Fire Station for Bolton.
At an approximate cost of £60,000, Bolton Watch Committee has decided to erect a new fire station. The committee is also in favour of the unification of the town's ambulance services, under the control of the fire brigade. SPECIFICATIONS OF MUNICIPAL MOTORS.
The abridged specifications of all classes of municipal motor, published in the Special Municipal Number of The Commenial Motor, has been reprinted as a neat and useful pocket-size booklet, The vehicles and mobile machinery are classified under 10 main headings: refuse collectors, rollers, gully and cesspit emptiers, fire-fighting appliances, street washers, ambulances, light tractors, street sweepers, miscellaneous mobile appliances and motel mowers.
Copies will be supplied, free, on receipt of a 1/d. stamp to cover postage.
the motor industry and, during the past few years, has become well known in connection with the development and sale of oil-engined vehicles. He is an active member of the Industrial Transport Association, Asseciated Road Operators and the transport section of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce.
F. Perkins, Ltd., has opened an office at _U. Temple Street, Birm ingham , which will serve as the headquarters of Mr. Bridgen.
MR. A. G. DF,AKINS, a haulage contractor, has been returned unopposed for Great Sutton Ward in the Ellesmere Port (Cheshire) Urban District Council elections.
MR. PETER F. BENNETT, J.P. , joint managing director of Joseph Lucas, Ltd., has been elected President of the Council of the 'Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund for the year 1936.
Rochdale Passenger Transport Committee recommendsthe appointment of MR. G. A. CHERRY, at present assistant manager at Hull, as general manager of the Rochdale passenger transport department.
MR. J. G. PIP:DER, B.COH., a member of the sales staff of Leyland Motors, Ltd., left England on Saturday. last for New Zealand, .where he will take up a similar position at the company's Wellington branch.
MR. ITERBF.RT C. BABB, M.I.E.E., F.R.S.A., general manager .of the Musselburgh and District Electric, Light and Traction Co., has been elected president of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (Scottish Centre). Mr. Babb is also general manager of the Lothians Electric Power Co.
Mn.• F. ELLINGHOUSE, A.I.S.A., has been appointed secretary of the Daimler Co., Ltd,. and the Birmingham Small Arms Co., Ltd. He was formerly with the Royal Dutch Shell combine, and afterwards was secretary-manager of a group of important companies controlled by the Standard Oil Co., Ltd.