B.M.C. FACTORY BUILDING BEGINS
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WORK was due to start on Wednesday on the construction of the new factory of the British Motor Corporation at pathgate, West Lothian. It is stated that the first factory building will be completed by the middle of next year, and another two about nine months later.
Production will start towards the end of 1961. Capacity is to be laid down for output at the rate of 1,000 commercial vehicles and 750 tractors a week, and the plant will employ about 5,600 people.
There will be three buildings, parallel with each other and 1,020 ft. long. The central building will make engines, gears and gearboxes. On one side will be a works producing commercial vehicles and on the other a tractor factory.
The buildings and services will cost approximately £5.25m., and the plant and equipment £6m.
BOOM YEAR FOR LEEDS
THE year1959-1960.was a boom year for Leeds Transport Department. A profit of £165.817. the highest registered since the undertaking started in 1894, has cleared the department of debt and a balance of £8,764 has been carried forward. Last week Aid. John Rafferty, chairman of the transport committee, recalled that in 1955 the department faced an accumulated deficit of £488,926.