MORE EXPORT LICENSING CONCESSIONS
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BY the Export of Goods (Control) (No. 8) Order, 1945, the Board of Trade has abolished some of the export licensing requirements. The principal effect is that as from January 1 the following products in our field do not require export licences for any destination:—Plates and sheets of iron and steel, hand• tools, mobile cranes, vans and lorries.
TAXICAB WHEEL WANTED FOR JERSEY
AJERSEY taki-driver, after being invalided out of the Army, has returned to find his machine deficient of a spare wheel. The vehicle is an Austin landaulet 1932-33, of 23.5 h.p., and the wheel is a 600 by 18 wire-spoked with six stud holes.
Perhaps one of our readers has such a wheel to spare. If so, would he kindly notify the Editor?
ALUMINIUM AND THE AUTOMOBILE ENGINEER (AN February 5, at 5.30 p.m., at the N./Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Storey's Gate, London, S.W.I, Dr. E. G. West will read a paper before the I.A.E. entitled "Aluminium and the Automobile Engineer." The same paper will be read before the Birmingham Branch at the James Watt Memorial Hall, at 6.15 p.m., on January 22.
ALL TYPES OF TRAILER AND SEMI-TRAILER
I N a publication recently issued by
Taskers of Andover (1932) Ltd., Waterloo Iron Works. Andover, Hants, there are no fewer than 34 different types of trailer or semi-trailer illustrated and described. A number is representative of specialized types built to the individual requirements of the maker's customers. It is a most interesting folder and applicants for it should quote No. 1,079.
OPERATORS HELP WAKEFIELD CHARITIES CIONTRIBUTIONS totalling £1,205 ‘....-from Wakefield and district operator of commercial vehicles have been divided among nine local charities as the result of a rian initiated by Mr. E. C. Gilbey, of Gilbeys Transport, Ltd.,
Wakefield sub-district manager under the M.O.W.T.'s scheme for the rationing of fuel for commercial motors. The plan, which the group organizers in the sub-district readily adopted, provided that small periodical payments made by operators in recognition of the group organizers' voluntary services should be accumulated in a trustee savings bank, with the twofold object of helping the war savings movement and ultimately benefiting local charities.
NO ROAD ACCIDENT IN 800,000 MILES
T0 cover a total of 800,000 miles without, an accident must surely rank as a record. This, however, was achieved by the drivers attached to the Blaby, Leicester, depot of Kinders, Ltd. The chairman of the company, Mr. A. C. Drayton, recently presented safety-first medals, certificates and accident-free bonuses to the men concerned.