Meadows Engines to be Made in India
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MEADOWS engines are to be made in India. After negotiating for a year, Mr. A. D. Mackay, deputy chairman and managing director of Henry Meadows, Ltd., has returned to Britain with an initial order for engines to the value of Elm. from Automobile Products of India, Ltd.
A.P.I., who make Lambretta scooters, Lockheed brakes; Borg and Beck clutches and Firestone brake facings in India, have contracted to sell, service and ultimately manufacture Meadows engines under licence. A three-year plan starts with the export of com pletely assembled engines. Later knocked-down engines will be exported for assembly, and finally engines will be fully manufactured in India.
Mr. P. 14Iatthen, managing director of APE., is in Britain arranging for the purchase of machine tools to the value of £250,000 for his factories.
CYCLE MAKERS ASKED TO USE ROAD TRANSPORT DECAUSE of damage and pilferage caused to bicycles delivered by rail, the Sun Cycle and Fittings Co., Ltd., Aston Brook Street, Birmingham, have been asked by their agents to use road transport exclusively. Last year's rail damage cost £950 17s.
Mr. Gilbert Smith, managing • director of Norton Motors, Ltd., said last week that the problem faced the whole industry. "We are always in trouble with the railways over damage in transit," he stated. "Where possible we send our goods by road."
INSUFFICIENT WORK FOR CONTRACT VEHICLE
A FTER the customers had explained fl•that they could not keep .a contractA licence vehicle fully employed, and a building firm had offered extra work, the Western Licensing Authority last week granted an A licence to Mr. M. P. Lucey, Great Elm, Somerset.
The vehicle had been run under contract to Roads Reconstruction, Ltd. L. Williams and Co., Frome, supported the application, which was to carry quarry and building materials normally within 120 miles.
Objectors were British Railways, British Road Services, W. Viney, Ltd., and Messrs. A. W. Merriott, TOURS POORLY PUBLICIZED •
EVENING tours from Dingwall were poorly publicized by Highland Omnibuses, Ltd., said the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority last week. He refused an application by a private operator, who wished to provide such facilities, after the solicitor for Highland Omnibuses said that the company looked to tours for profits to offset losses incurred on winter stage services.
The Authority gave warning that if the company were lax in making known their tours during the coming season, the applicant's case might be reconsidered.
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