The Archive · 1928

PRENCH AM POST TO

AMERICA

Paris, Feb. 38.

'The Post Office will open an air feervice' between France and South, Wdmerica' on March 1.—Reuter, Foreign Makers Erecting Plants to Avoid Import Tax London, Feb. 24.

Further important developments: are to take place in the manufacture of rubber tyres in this country. It! is Ienrmed that both the Firestone and Pirelli Companies, who have hitherto supplied this market from abroad, are building new works here, "They are preparing for a large output, There are now three firms which have taken this step since Mr. Winston Churchill, in the Inst Bud~ get, included tyres in the same fiscal category as motor-ears and impos Jon them an import duty of 334 per cent, The third firm is Messrs.

Goodyear which announced last Joly that they were establishing a factory at Wolverhampton where they would employ 1,000 men on tyre making—Revter,

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