Success of Quay Bureau
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NEARLY 66,000 vehicles have taken delivery of goods from the Manchester Ship Canal's quays and sheds since the revised quay-delivery bureau opened a year ago.
The bureau's function is to collate requirements for ex-quay delivery, in collaboration with importers, agents and haulage contractors, and to see that " advised " vehicles get preferential attention at the berths during certain periods.
Commenting upon the year's working, the Manchester Ship Canal Co. say in a statement: "This is a remarkably satisfactory and progressive step towards the more economical use of road transport, with consequential benefits to all concerned."
OLD BASCULE BRIDGE TO BE REPLACED
ANEW bridge is to replace an old hand-operated bascule bridge at Haddiscoe, near Great Yarmouth, on the A143. The new structure will carry the road over a branch railway and eliminate the use of a level crossing which is used by more than 4,000 vehicles a day.
Work on the new bridge will start in the spring. The old bridge was built in the early part of the last century and vehicles weighing over 5 tons have not been allowed to use it,
Another bridge subject to a weight limit, where the A143 crosses the River Waveney, is to be strengthened so that the restriction will eventually go. This work should be finished within 15 months.
Al MODERNIZATION
WORK on the modernization of a further four • miles of the Great North Road, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, is to start immediately. A contract, costing £748,000, has been awarded to George Wimpey and Co., Ltd., for the construction of a second carriageway between Redhouse and Westbridge.
A sum of £1-.85m. is to be spent on improving the Al by building a Grantham by-pass, and widening the existing road between the Witham bridge and the cross-roads at Little Ponton. This work should be finished in 1962.
P.O.A. DISPLAY
riERE will again be a " minibition " organized by the Purchasing Officers' Association, to coincide with their conference at The Spa, Scarborough, from September 29-October I, this year. The stand hire charge will be £25, and details may be obtained from the secretary of the Association at Wardrobe Court, 146a Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.4.
TECHNICAL AUTHORSHIP TESTS
AS a result of the efforts of the Technical Publications Association. a series of examinations in technical authorship will be inaugurated by he City and Guilds of London Institute, 76 Portland Place, London, W.1, iit the spring.