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4th July 1952, Page 37
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Wel!worthy Piston Rings, Ltd., Lyntlngton, Hants, has changed its name to Wel!worthy, Ltd. _

The wages of drivers of road rollers are to be increased by 3d. per hour to

a total of £6 12s. for a 44-hour week. a Small and Parkes, Ltd., has opened a service depot at 50, Old_ Market Street {Jacob Street entrance), Bristol.

The Anglo-American Garage, 22, Avenue Foureau, Lamy, 22, Aleer, have been appointed Thornycroft distributors for Algeria.

The Lincolnshire Road Car Co., Ltd., is reported as stating that receipts per mile on bus services in Lines. arc the lowest in the country.

The Steeragrip plastic steering-wheel cover is soon to be made by Creators, Ltd., New Haway, Weybridge, in sizes suitable for commercial vehicles.

A party of Colonial members of the Institution of Civil Engineers recently visited the Basingstoke works of Trans port Equipment (Thornycroft), Ltd.

Members of the London area of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers will visit the works of Holsun Batteries, Ltd., Dagenham, at 2 p.m. on July 15.

Barton Transport, Ltd.. Chilwell, proposes to run a number of two-day excursions to London for the Coronation next year. The proposed fare is £1 9s.

Messrs. R. Walker and Son, 76 Redfern Road, Tyseley, Birmingham, has produced a new anti-dazzle driving visor. Known as the Autocrat, it retails at 14s, 9d.

The associated company in Athens of }latex (London), Ltd., 81, Leadenhall Street, London, E.C.3, has secured a licence for the import into Greece of Il140.000 worth of Ferguson tractors and implements. An economic survey of Portuguese East Africa has been published by H.M. Stationery Office, price 3s. bd.

A new depot for delivering from stock all sizes of tyre, has been opened at Mill House, Carleton, near Carlisle (Telephone Carlisle 24579), by Henley's Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd.

A total of 138 employees of the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., and associated concerns received longservice presentations from the chairman, Mr. W. T. James, recently..

Attendance at the Mechanical Handling Exhibition and Convention at Olympia was 40 per cent. above that of 1950, the total being 45,428. Overseas attendance was 3,508 compared with 1,298.

INDIAN ARMY VEHICLES A N order for 600 military vehicles has been placed with Premier Automobiles, Ltd., Kuria, by the Indian Ministry of Defence. Production will commence this month. The vehicles specified are 1-ton models with '26 h.p. engines. The company will build the chassis and cabs and the Army will construct the bodies.

CALL TO RELIEVE TAXATION WHEN Mr. G. E. Beharrell, managing YY director of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., addressed the Motor Agents' Association at Scarborough, recently, he expressed the hope that before long some assurance would be given that the need was realized for a substantial reduction in motor taxation and for the provision of better roads.

APRIL REGISTRATIONS DOWN

REG ISTRATTONS of new vehicles for April were down by nearly 4.000 as compared with the previous month. The total for the year to April, excluding cars and motorcycles, was 51.218. Details are given in the table below.


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