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POLAND WANTS 500 TRACTORS
POLAND requires at least 500 tractors of over 100 h.p. for the haulage of timber from forests for conversion into pit props. This information is contained in a report to European Central Inland Transport Organization, 38, Grosvenor Square, London, W.1, by Col. W. R. A. Fetherstonhaugh, who has been making a detailed investigation of transport conditions in Poland. Poland also needs other road vehicles, and the country's requirements are to be notified to E.C.I.T.O.
Colonel Fetherstonhaugh was unable to obtain much information about road transport in Poland. Many road bridges were destroyed during the war, but most of the bridges on the main highways have been repaired with temporary wooden structures.
Poland's railway system has been extensively damaged, but everything possible is being done to repair it. Port installations are deficient of much necessary equipment, and the country's import and export trade is being hampered.
WORLD TRADE OPENINGS •
THE following export trade openings are reported by Reuter:—
W. Smethurst and Cia., Ltda., Sulacap Building, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, wishes to purchase several new single-deck buses with oil engines fitted at the rear.
Juan H. Darquea, Montalvo No, 811, Ambato, Ecuador, is interested in the purchase of and representation for lorries, cars and tyres. Anam Tobls Import, 39, Niewe Heerengracht, Amsterdam C., Holland, desires quotations on and representations for tools and accessories.
" Sacco," S. A. de Credit° y Cornercio, Cuji a Salvador de Leon 3, Caracas, Venezuela, is interested in vehicle parts and accessories.
BRITISH ROAD FEDERATION TO VISIT SWEDEN
A DELEGATION of highway experts, /-1 sponsored by the British Road Federation and led by its chairman, Lord Sandhurst, O.B.E., will visit Sweden during September, at the invitation of the Swedish authorities. The members will study new methods of road design and construction which are being adopted in that country, and a report on the delegation's recommendations will be issued. It is hoped that this will help in alleviating the problems of congestion and road accidents in Britain.
BASIC ROAD STATISTICS THAT useful little booklet, " Basic 1 Road Statistics," has been brought up to date by the British Road Federation, 4a, Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C.1, and is published at Is. 2d., including postage. In its 44 pages, it includes a wealth of information on essential .road matters.
SAFETY EXPERIMENTS XPERIMENTS in various parts of 1.-■ the country are to be undertaken by the Ministry of Transport to determine the efficiency of different methods of segregating pedestrians from vehicular traffic in the interests of road safety. RECIPE FOR PROSPERITY " VIVE per cent, inspiration and 95 I per cent. perspiration is not a bad recipe for world prosperity," said Sir Miles Thomas, D.F.C., vice-chairman of the Nuffield Organisation, speaking at the Cardiff Motor Jubilee banquet on August 30.
The whole world was looking for an industrial renaissance and for a re-establishment of faith in the fact that the main ingredient of prosperity was hard work, for which there was no substitute. Sir Miles continued. The country was in danger of straying into a morass of bad-tempered lethargy and bitterness, but South Wales could lead the way out "Certainly, without a realistic appreciation of the seriousness of the coal situation, with which is inescapably inter-twined the country's steel and iron capacity, the future prospects for British industry cannot be other than bleak," Sir Miles declared.
B.A. TAKESOVER NEW PLANT
DESIGNED and operated for the Government during the war, the Falkirk Rolling Mills have b e en acquired by the British Aluminium Co., Ltd., for commercial purposes.
The plant is one of the largest and most up-to-date units in the country for producing sheet and strip rolled products in pure aluminium, and the full range of work-hardened and heattreated alloys. Sheets will be available in sizes up to 18 ft. by 6 ft. by in., or 50 ft. by 4 ft. by I in. Coils will be offered in sizes up to 6 ft. wide (or 4 ft. if heat-treated) and 1.500 lb. weight. Plates up to 30 ft. by 6 ft. at 2,000 lb. weight will be available.
R.A.C. HANDBOOK REAPPEARS
AFTER a lapse of six years, the R.A.C. Guide and Handbook is once again available. The 1946-47 issue follows closely, in its make-up and the information it contains, its predecessor of pre-war years.
It contains nearly 600 pages of useful information and 32 pages of maps. A coloured atlas of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, with road numbers and mileages, is inchaded. Seventy street plans of the larger towns show by-passes and through routes.
EXPORT EXHIBITION
A N exhibition at which manufacturers will be given an opportunity of displaying their products to overseas buyers is to take place from November 12-23 at the London Exhibition Centre. Applications for space should be addressed to Mr. L. M. Fisher, London Exhibition Centre, London, W.I.