Birmingham Corporation to Complain to Monopolies Commission

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In a statement issued on October 21st, Mr. Frank Gillespie, chairman of the Birmingham City Council's transport committee revealed than when invited to tender for a thrée-year contract to maintain the tyres of the city's 1,700 buses, eight firms gave identical quotations. The compnnies were: the Dunlop Rubber Compmny, Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company, North British Rubber Comp@ny, India Tyre and Rubber Company, Michelin Tyre Company, Avon Rubber Compnny, Firestone Tyre and Rubber Company, and Pirelli. "We complained to Monopolies Commission several years ago about the clear indication of a price ring among tyre firms," he said, "The Commission came out against price maintenance for the sale of tyres, but they whitewashed the question of contracts for tyre mileage, such as that which we are now: negotiating for a three-year period starting next January. He added they they intended to complain sain, Ed. Comment: We wonder how many Labour municipalities are being rooked by prices rings? Readers hould ensure that their council checks up on such matters.