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Simms to Make Turbo-blower

7th December 1956
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I T was announced on Wednesday that Simms Motor Units, Ltd., had acquired the exclusive licence to manufacture and sell in Great Britain and throughout the sterling area the German Eberspacher turbo-blower. Production will begin early next year and full sales and service facilities will then be available.

It is •expected that several British engine manufacturers will then announce new turbo-blown units as additions to their range. Already Meadows, Rover, Thornycroft and Perkins oil engines have been run satisfactorily with Eberspacher turbo-chargers. Power output increases of at least 50 per cent. have been obtained with several units, and blowers suited to engines of up to 200 b.h.p. are to be offered.

BODY MAKERS' CLAIMS REFUSED

THE employers' Joint Wages Board has rejected trade-union proposals for a shorter working week and longer holidays for bodybuilding workers, and has also refused the unions' application for an increase in the wages differential which at present gives London area employees an additional Id. an hour.

This was announced at a meeting in London last week between members of the employers' wages board and representatives of the unions concerned. The unions may now report a dispute to the Minister of Labour for reference to the Industrial Disputes Tribunal.

"REMEMBER TRANSPORT"

" TRANSPORT will do its utmost to overcome all the difficulties presented by the fuel shortage, but the people in transport have the right to say that it is about time their industry was remembered when there is no emergency," stated Sir John Elliot, pastpresident of the Institute of Transport and chairman of the London Transport Executive, at the annual dinner of the Humberside Section of the Institute last week.

Aid. H. Kneeshaw, Lord Mayor of Hull, said that if a Humber bridge existed, much fuel could he saved. He hoped that level-crossings in Hull would now be closed against road traffic for shorter periods to avoid waste of fuel caused by idling engines

HORSES NOT WANTED

CUSTOMERS no longer wanted horse-drawn vehicles. the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority was told last week. Mr. J. Bennion, Pontefract. farmer, successfully applied for a B licence for a vehicle of 3i tons unladen weight. It was stated that the applicant had provided transport for Hemsworth Rural District Council for nearly 30 years, and that most of his farmland had been taken by the council for


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