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SPARES FOR EX-SERVICE VEHICLES

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D'sQUIET in the matter of spare parts for ex-military vehicles sold by the retail motor trade was voiced by Mr. C. R. Crane, honorary secretary of the Leeds Centre of the Institute of the Motor Industry, at its December meeting. He raised the matter after a lecture by Mr. G. M. Easten. north

.eastern counties representative of the Rootes group.

Pointing out that in some instances ex-military vehicles hadmechanism not of the manufacturers' standard design for civilian models, Mr. Crane said it seemed a pity that spares were not available.

" The trade is going to get a bad name if it cannot service vehicles which it has sold," Mr. Crane added. "It doesn't matter whether the trader has bought the vehicle from a manufacturer or from a dump; he sells it as a roadworthy vehicle, and, therefore, he should be in a position to service it. Similarly, any manufacturer who has made these vehicles should put himself into a positioq to supply spares."

Supplies problems were also stressed by Mr. Fasten during his lecture on " Service Modifications, Troubles and Methods," Which had particular reference to products of the.Rootes group. " Materials are the chief cause of our headaches," he said, pointing out that replacement components had to come straight from the production lines, because of lack of reserve stocks, and that completion of many new vehicles was being delayed by the necessity of waiting for some component.

INTELLIGENT ANTICIPATION— SAFE DRIVING F OLLOWING the publication of the I article, "Intelligent Anticipation— Safe Driving," in our issue dated December 6, we received a request from the Chief Constable, Road Traffic Division. West Riding Constabulary, Wakefield, for permission to reproduce the article in a booklet, published monthly by the Division.

This booklet is called "Road-Safety 'Notes." and is particularly commendable for its striking full-page half-tone illustrations, which, in the main, show the causes and the results of road accidents. Each issue also contains a number of _articles written by people who are • close to the job of making the roads safer, and it is crowded with other interesting matter related to the same • subject.

Far more good would follow the distribution of such a booklet throughout the country than could ever be achieved by the exhibition of costly posters of the tragic-widow type.

"FREE TRANSPORT" SAY YORKSHIRE LIBERALS

OPPOS1NG the Transport Bill. the Yorkshire Liberal Federation adopted, at a meeting in Leeds, a resolution which stated that by nationalizing road transport the Bill would great; a most injurious monopoly in a field.offering peculiar scope for independent enterprise. The Federation also urged the removal of "Tory-imposed restrictions on road transport."

FORD'S WAR STORY REVEALED' "THE story of a front-line factory, the I Ford works at Dagenham, is told in a new book entitled "Ford at War," by Hilary St. George Saunders. It records the efforts involved in the transfer to war production at the Ford factory and the company's drive for victory.

Facts revealed in the book are that in 1943 the number of Fordson .tractors called for was 26,855. but 26.990 were actually pro duced. Before the war the output of V8 engines was 16,000 a year, and by 1943 it attained its peak at 60,410, to which must be added 57 engines reconditioned each day.

Many vehicles from America and Canada were assembled by the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., which also helped in the production of Rolls-Royce Merlin aeroplane engines, the crating of vehicles for the North African campaign, and the making of Bren-gun carriers.

" Ford at War" is liberally embellished with coloured illustrations by Helen McKie and many gravure photographs, and is one of the finest books of its kind that we have seen.

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INDUSTRY BACKS ROADsRAIL..

PLAN

ASTATEMENT issued by the railways on Monday (December 301 declared that there was no ground foe the contention that co-ordination of transport was impossible wit hou t common ownership.

The railways pointed out that the road-rail agreement had been approved by industry, and that the canals were s willing to become a party 'to a supplementary agreement on the same lines. The proposals were also supported by coastal shipping interests.

The memorandum added that the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, the Federation 'of British Industries, the Traders' Co-ordinating Committee on Transport, the British ' Road Federation and the National Union of Manufacturers were among the organizations supporting the roadrail agreement.

18,000 NEW VEHICLES IN OCTOBER

THE latest statistics of new registralions of vehicles are those for October. The following table shows that, excluding cars and motorcycles, 18,804 new vehieles were introduced for the first time in that month:—

CO-OP. BUYS BODY BUSINESS

THE Scottish Co-operative Wholesale HE has purchased the coachbuilding business of Mr. D. Cadogatt, of Perth. The Society is to take additional premises. At the moment the firm are building goods and passenger bodies which are to be mounted on vehicles operating in the Faroe Islands.

MORE BRITISH VEHICLES FOR NEW ZEALAND

A N increased import allocation for 1—Lcommercial vehicles has been notified by the New Zealand Finance Minister. This year, imports from the United Kingdom of commercial-vehicle chassis (including vans, for which there are heavy demands) will be allowed up to 250 per cent, of the value of the imports of goods .of a similar nature during 1938.

Imports into Canada and the United States are also being increttsecl "to 150 per cent, of the 1938 value. N.I. APPEAL TRIBUNAL

THE composition of the Transport Appeal Tribunal for Northern Ireland, under the Road and Railway Transport Act (N.1), 1935, has been announced. Mr. George B. Hanna, K.C., will be chairman, and Mr. H. E. A. Addy, E.C.A., and Professor F. T. Lloyd-Dodd, 0.B.E., M.A., D.Sc.. will be members. The appointments will remain in force Until March 31.

Mr. C. J. Bateman, M.B.E., has been appointed clerk to the tribunal.

MAGISTRATES FORBID PARADE

DUNDEE magistrates have rejected an application by Mr. John B. S. Carrie for permission to stage a parade of 100 vehicles through the city streets on January 11 and 25, as a protest against nationalization.


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