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Musical Honours
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JUST as Mr. F. Eastwood, of the Transport and General Workers' Union, was telling the Road Haulage Wages Council, last week, how unfavourably the wages of drivers compared with the new pay scales for private soldiers, a military band passed outside the conference room. It was, I understand, playing "Colonel Bogey."
Hope Eternal
E'OR 30 years hauliers have protested about conditions on
• Woodhead Pass during snow. For 30 years vehicles have stood immobile in a long snowed-up queue. But now . . . West Riding County Council hope to provide in next year's estimates for modern equipment to clear the road. Hope has sprung eternal for the past 30 years.
Irish Jig
WHEN it comes to competition, commercial or political, the Irish have a style of their own. Dislike for radiocontrolled taxicabs has cost Ryans' Radio Cab Co., Dublin, £1,600 in the past four months in answering bogus calls. They have received more than 2,880 fraudulent calls and answered as many as 162 in a day. Some weeks ago a driver was kidnapped and one of Ryans' taxis was set on fire and destroyed. Ryans' who say that it is difficult to see how they can continue operations, have a sound precedent in closing down. Silver Cabs, Ltd., Belfast, who pioneered radio taxis in Dublin, withdrew their service in January.
Ingrates
I T seems sa pity that the railways will receive so little benefit • from the new Riverside Quay at the State-owned Hull docks. It has been built so that fruit ships can unload irrespective of the tide and is to be siding-connected. But an unappreciative fruit trade prefers road transport for any fragile fruit and the railways get only onions, potatoes, carrots and oranges. The Hull dock authorities have in the past been very touchy about road transport. I recall in 1932, when the docks were owned by the L.M.S. and L.N.E. Railways, being escorted from the area by a large policeman while I was trying to gather information on the distribution of fish by road by F.-Cook and Sons, Ltd. I also remember a lorry being parked across the entrance to the docks in protest against restrictions on road transport imposed by the railways. They were vigorous days.
Jolly Old Pals
BUT the railways now take a much more broadminded view. of road transport. Independent hauliers are carrying the materials for the new railway offices at York. Who says there is no road-rail co-operation?
100-tonners in the Desert
THE oil companies are beginning to. think of 100-tonners for the desert. The reason is that speed in the movement of, oil-boring rigs is becoming an increasing economic necessity and the fewer the parts into which they have to be broken down for transport, the quicker the transfer of the equipment to the new site.
Automatic gearboxes are also likely to be generally used by the oil companies. Gear changes with conventional gearboxes are too stow and the loss of speed is such that excessive stress is thsown on the transmissions of desert vehicles when the clutch is re-engaged.
British Best
THE Transport Tribunal may not always please everyone,
but they have a staunch admirer in Mr. T. H. Summerson, chairman of the North Eastern Board of the British Transport Commission. He was one of the five officials of the Commission who last year studied transport in America. There he was able to observe the "baleful" restrictions imposed by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
"We wouldn't swap our Transport Tribunal for their Interstate Commerce Commission for anything in the world," he said at Croft Spa, County Durham, last Friday.