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Hauliers Anxious About Permits: Strong Line In West Midlands
R EPORTS front many areas indicate the concern with which the Road Haulage Executive's announcement on permits has been received. As reported on the opposite page, hauliers in......
" Base. Purchase Tax On Tonnage A Ccording To Sir John
E. r 1Thornycroft, governing director and chairman of John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., purchase tax on goods chassis and the 20 m.p.h. speed limit on vehicles weighing more......
Services Standardize Units And Vehicles
IT is learned that the Rolls-Royce I four-, sixand eight-cylindered petrol engines are to be standardized for military wheeled vehicles and for certain tracked units.......
South Africa To Build Olympics
B ELIEVED to be the first integral-type transit bus to be made in South Africa, Leyland-M.C.W. buses are to be built in Port Elizabeth by Bus Bodies (S.A.), Ltd., a company in......
Edinburgh To Scrap Trams
A FTER six months' consideration. Edinburgh Corporation has decided to abandon a quarter of its trams during the next three years and to replace them with motorbuses. Coun. A.......
R.h.e. Ra Ising Rates
INCREASES in haulage rates have I been discussed at a meeting of representatives of the Road Haulage Executive and certain chemical manufacturers in Widnes. Mr. E. N. Wainwright......