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Mobile Service Unit on Foreign Tour "
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THE Austin Motor Co., Ltd., has built a mobile service unit based on an Austin 5-ton chassis with a Campion-Deplirex expanding body. It is to sail from Hull for Helsinki this month and onwards to Sweden, France and other Continental countries before going farther afield, possibly to Africa.
The interior of the vehicle, when fully expanded, measures 14 ft. 3 ins. by 13 ft.
and contains equipment for electric welding, valve refacing and various other tasks usually performed in a garage. Public-address equipment and a film projector are also carried.
In addition to the crew, over 2 tons of spares and equipment will be taken on the trip, and Austin users will be able to have their vehicles rpad-tested and repaired free of charge.
L.T.E. HIRE CLAUSE IN BILL: M.P.s TO PROTEST
CLAUSE 17 of the Transport Bill, which will prevent the London Transport Executive from hiring buses for seaside trips, is to be the subject of protest by a number of London Members of Parliament. It proposes the restriction of contract work by the Executive to within 10 miles outside its boundaries, or five miles in Kent.
Officials of the Transport and General Workers' Union state that anal' from the general public being affected, busmen themselves would be prevented from hiring their vehicles at special rates at week-ends to take their families to the coast. In the first eight months of this year the L.T.E. hired 5,500 buses for 3,500 excursions outside its area.
$4.5M. CANADIAN ORDER THIS month, Canadian manufacturers I will begin to produce the first of the 835 lorries, 70 tractors, 60 large trailers and 450 buses to be supplied to South and South-East Asia under the Colombo
Plan. The cost is $4.5m. All the vehicles have to be delivered to Bombay by next March.
Uni-Gun Lubricating Equipment, Ltd., Beverley Way, Kingston By-pass, London, S.W.20, has issued a new catalogue.