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MR. J. RITCHIE is now covering the Glasgow territory for Simms Motor Units, Ltd., MR. J. K. OVENSTONE having resigned his position. Mr. Ritchie has managed the Edinburgh branch during the past few years.
MR. E. B. GRAHAM, chief engineer of Specialloicl, Ltd., is in Budapest with the Ganz organization, co-operating with the company in tooling up and instructing its employees in the methods of producing Specialloid pistons, which it is to manufacture under licence.
MR. FREDERICK G. BRISTOW, C.B.E., a member of the committee of management of the British Road Federation, has accepted an invitation to represent the Federation at the Ninth International Chamber of Commerce Congress
in Berlin at the end of June, when, inter alia, questions affecting highway transport will be under consideration. He is also representing the C.M.U.A.
MR. A. W. HUBBLE, managing director of Crossley Motors, Ltd., is away on vacation under doctor's orders. The factory is operating night and day, and the considerable work entailed has affected Mr. Hubble to the extent of enforcing a rest. We wish him a speedy return to robust health.
By reason of the increasing tendency of garage proprietors to avail themselves of the garage-planning facilities of the LaycockEngineering Co., Ltd., when laying out new premises, the company has appointed MR. A. KEIGHLEY, whose portrait appears on this page, as technical assistant to MR. P. E. BarrrarN, sales manager. Mr. Keighley has been with the company for several years, and is well acquainted with modern garage requirements and future lines of development.
LORD MCGOWAN was recently elected President of the National Safety-First Association. He is well known as a leading industrialist, being chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., in which organization an ambitious accident-prevention policy is followed. Lord McGowan was born in Glasgow in 1874. He joined flit Notrels Explosives Co. in 1889, and became a director of that concern in 1915. He co-operated with' the late Lord Melchett to form Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., in 1926. He should be a big asset to the' Association.
B-LICENSEE WINS IMPORTANT TEST CA.SE.
A " test " decision of importance to merchants and agriculturists was given by Sheriff Malcolm, at Dundee, last Saturday, when he decided that a Blicensee may, in certain circumstances; carry goods outside the area restricted by his licence.
As reported in The Commercial Motor,. last week, Gordon A. Gauld; general merchant, of Culter, who held a B licence, admitted having delivered potatoes in Angus, but pleaded not guilty to having infringed the condi: tions of his licence by using the lorry to carry potatoes for hire or reward outside a radius of 10 miles of Peterculter.
The Sheriff stated that in January last a Dundee farmer bought from Gauld 10-20 tons of potatoes, delivered to the purchaser. Accused was undoubtedly carrying his own goods, for
it was a condition of sale that the property was not to pass to the purchaser until delivery. He was not carrying the potatoes in the exercise of his specific business as a carrier.
Gauld was found not guilty.
Southport Services Busy.
In his annual report, the chief constable of Southport states that the total number of calls received by the fire brigade during 1936 was 87.
The efficiency of the Leyland-Metz escape was demonstrated at a fire which took place in the Provincial Bank Buildings, Lord Street. Here, an office on the third floor was on fire and flames were issuing through the window. The escape was raised to a height Of 65 ft. and water poured into the office within a few seconds of the arrival of the brigade. The fire was extinguished in a 'few minutes and thousands of pounds' worth of property was saved from destruction.
B22 The total distance travelled to and from-fires in the borough was 152 miles, and to fires outside the borough, 229 miles., The aggregate cost of running and, maintaining the four fire-engines and foam van (Swift) for the year was £39 9s. 2d.
The total number of ambulance calls received was 405, against 336 in 1935. The distance travelled in all was 3,210 miles, and the time occupied, 368 hours.
Orkney Farmers to Visit Agricultural Works.
. A party of farmers from the Orkney. Agricultural Discussion Society is leaving Kirkwall on June 18 to visit the works of R. A. Lister and Co., Ltd, at Dursley. During -the course
• of their trip, the mernbers will visit ,the Royal Agricultural College, at Cirencester, where they will inspect the -;200-acre-farm and smallhOldbig belong
lag to it. This College, which was opened in 1844, is the oldest agricultural teaching institution in the country and one of the oldest in the world.
" The visit will also include a trip to the works of Blackstone and Co., Ltd., whilst on the return trip a halt will be called at Alloa, so that the party can visit the Highland Agricultural Show.
M. of T.'s New Address.
The offices of the Ministry of Transport are now at Metropole Buildings, Northumberland • Avenue, London, W.C.2. The telephone number—Whitehall 8400—remains unchanged.
Newcastle Operator Dead.
The death has taken place of Mr. Robert Gordon, one of three brothers who formed County Motor Services, Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne. Mr. Gordon was 72 years old and had been managing director of the concern. DESTROYED VEHICLES CANNOT ' BE RELICENSED.
A licensing' point concerning vehicles destroyed by fire was raised in an application by the L.M.S. Railway Co.; before the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, at Leeds, on Monday.
When the railway company applied for the re-grant of an A licence in respect of eight vehicles and seven trailers at Sowerby Bridge base, it transpired that six of the vehicles were destroyed by fire on May 21. • The Licensing Authority said that a re-grant could not be made in respect of these six vehicles, as they were not in existence. If, however, the L.M.S. applied for permission to replace them by similar vehicles the application would be granted without a public inquiry.
Tractor Transport by Lorry.
• H. A. Hamshaw, Ltd., of Leicester, has recently supplied to the En-ToutCas Co., Ltd., the Morris-Commercial Leader long-wheelbase lorry shown in accompanyiu illustrations. It is a 3-4-tonner, and the body has been expressly designed for the transport of chain-track tractors from one aerodrome to another, and to obviate the ennger of loading by planks and s. tecially constructed runways.
The body can be divided in tha centre, so as to form part of a ramp of easy angle for loading purposes, an operation which is facilitated by the use of a rack tipping gear mounted on a subframe extension at the rear. This gear can be employed to wind the load back into the horizontal position when on the ramp. The two-piece tailboard is of strong construction and is well able to support the tractors, which weigh up to three tons. The outfit should prove, most useful in spheres where tractors and other agricultural appliances have to be transported from site to site.
United Bid for Toll Rights. . ,
, A conference is to be held at Cardiff between representatives of Cardiff City Council, Glamorgan County Council, and Barry and Penarth Urban District Councils, with a view to arranging united action to buy out the toll. ownership on the Cardiff-Penarth main road.