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CAIADA offers exceptionally good opportunities to the British commercial motor industry for earning dollars through development of the,use of oil engines, suggests Aid. Charles Holdsworth, who, following the British Transport Commission's acquisition of his long-distance road haulage interests, has been touring Canada, the United States and South Africa. He travelled about 30,000 miles by sea, rail, road and air.
Ald. Holdsworth, who travelled from east to west across Canada, and from vvest toeast across the United States, remarked that the oil engine was not used to any large extent for road transport in either country. A recent development, however, was its introduction in long-distance coaches.
In South Africa he was impressed by the authorities' national road-development policy as promising great scope for transport.
The growth of industry in such countries as Canada and South Africa, and the economic situation in Britain, lead him to favour much more emigration to Commonwealth countries. Both' his sons, -Mr. Donald Holdsworth and Mr. -Malcolm Holdsworth, who were directors in the Holdsworth group, are to emigrate. Mr. Donald Holdsworth and his family will sail on December 10 for South Africa.
• Aid. Holdsworth told a correspondent of The Commercial Motor" that he had nothing further to report at present concerning two suggested projects for
establishing trunk road haulage services in South Africa and constructing an oil refinery at Durban. He mentioned that while in New York he met Mr. Robert Hanson, a colleague for many years in road transport enterprises, who was on his way to Canada in connection with negotiations for the acquisition of a Canadian road haulage business by Hanson Haulage, Ltd., of Huddersfield.