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were on Tuesday introduced into service by Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., on a further 12 country routes. The 12 new buses, which are A.E.C.-Weymann 42-seaters, are generally similar to those already in service.
All are equipped with electrically operated doors, heaters and microphones and lotidspeakers, by means of which drivers can announce the stops. The buses also have the special automatic horn and warning light devised by the company's engineering staff as a safety precaution for use when reversing.
" ARMS " CARRY LORRIES
WHEN William Oliver and Sons, Ltd., timber merchants, 12-13 Bow Lane, London, E.C.4, sent two Bedford articulated vehicles and two Albion Chieftain lorries to Birmingham, on Monday, with loads of mahogany logs 30-33 ft. long, the Albions were brought back to London the next day by the articulated outfits, having been loaded on to them by crane. Mr. Graham Oliver told The Commercial Motor that about 16 gallons of fuel was saved by this means.
FORD'S E55m. EXPORTS OF 325,000 vehicles produced by the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., in 1956, 154,000, to the value of L55m., were exported. Shipments to North America earned 320m. The company say that short-time working and some redundancy are now inevitable because 'of home conditions, but success in other areas inspired confidence that recovery was assured when the emergency ends.