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The new Dunlop factory in Brazil, now iearing completion, is scheduled to begin iroduction this year.
The Minister of Transport has given anction for work to start on the Digbeth3eritend road-widening scheme.
On August • 17, the British Standards Institution will be housed in their new ?remises at 2 Park Street, London, W.1.
Last week, the House of Lords approved he British Transport Commission (Cornsensation to Employees) Regulations, 1953.
The London and Provincial Motor and Dactor Co.' Ltd., a subsidiary of Lombard Banking, Ltd., has been renamed Lombank, Ltd.
Vehicles may be exported to China if restrictions are relaxed, according to a party of trade negotiators who recently visited that country.
The annual dinner-dance of the Amalgamated Horse and Motor Owners' Association is to be held at Shorrock's Palais Royal, Brunswick Street, Manchester, on October 23.
The London Passengers' Association have asked the Minister of Transport to postpone increases in fares in the capital until the results of the inquiry into London Transport are made known.
Work is to begin soon on a suspension bridge across the Mersey to link Widnes and Runcorn. It will cost £1.3m. and will be finished in 1957. It is hoped that a start will shortly be made on the Tamar bridge in Cornwall. Helccs Vehicles, Ltd., have moved to 77 Baker Street, London, W.1.
The Ford Motor Co., Ltd., are to supply 100 lorries, valued at £140,000, to the Buenos Aires police.
Potteries Motor Traction Co., Ltd., have received sanction to issue 474,025 new ordinary shares of £1 each.
At September 30, 1952, there were 57,598 passenger vehicles and 48,613 goods vehicles, incorporating oil engines, licensed in this country.
The second National Factory Equipment Exhibition will be held at the Royal Horticultural Society's Halls, Westminster, from March 22-26 next year.
Finehley Borough Council are asking the Ministry of Transport to ban heavy lorries from parking on the Great North Road because of damage done to footpaths.
Messrs. Parker and Son are to hold a service week for Dodge and Perkinsengined vehicles at their Cambridge Road depot, Fenstanton, Hunts, from August 18-22.
The new Morris-Commercial 1-ton forward-control van costs £706 4s. 3d. complete (including • purchase tax), or £526 4s. 3d. in chassis form with assembled front end.
" C.A.B.M.A. Register, 1953," in which British manufacturers list their products for sale and their distributors in Canada, has been published by Kelly's Directories, Ltd., and Iliffe and Sons, Ltd.