6 APRIL 1962, page 28

Company Notes

T HE BRITISH WAGON CO. LTD. suf- fered a 25 per cent. decline in profits for 1961, due to the reduced sale of motor vehicles arid the 7 per cent. (later 6 per cent.) Bank rate.......

Investment Notes

By CUSTOS T III fact that dividends and interest pay- ments on Stock Exchange securities went up last year by 5.9 per cent. against the 8 per cent. rise in wages and salaries......

Roundabout

Machina ex Deo By K ATHAR1NE WHITEHORN I do not know which machines bother other people most, but my trouble consists of a vacuum cleaner that cannot digest, an egg-whisk that......