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THE Eastern Licensing Authority
has rejeeted an application by Victoria Coaches (Leigh-on-Sea), Ltd., to run an express coach service between Southend and Tower Hill, London. He thought that there was room for improvement in the railway service, but that there was not sufficient evidence to support an important grant.
Mr. Maurice Holmes, representing the objectors, the Railway Executive and Westeliff-on-Sea Motor Services, Ltd., said that the applicants were physically incapable of implementing the proposed service and alleged that their vehicles were " antiquated, second-hand and unmaintainecl."
All that Victoria Coaches could do, be stated, would be to abstract a certain amount of traffic from the railways and do them appreciable damage, vet contribute no beneficial effect to the traffic flow.
Mr. M. King-Hamilton, for the applicants, said that the rail service was inadequate, with the possible exception of frequency. He undertook that the old vehicles Mr. Holmes had molttioaed would not be used on the proposed route if the licence were granted. The earlier stages of the case were reported last week.
B.M.M.O. TO SHIFT HEADQUARTERS
AS part of a big re-organization scheme being undertaken by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., their Bearwood Headquarters are to be transferred to Hope Lodge, Edgbaston. The new premises, which will house the general manager, the secretarial, administrative and accountancy staffs and engineers, are close to the company's central workshops_
B.M.M.O. have had their headquarters at Bearwood for nearly 50 ears. Thei.1 new address will be ready for occupancy in July.
NEW WELDING GUN FOR ARGONARC PROCESS THE latest addition to the welding equipment made by the British Oxygen Co., Ltd., Cleveland Row, London, S.W.1, is a manual electrode gun for use with the B.O.C. Argonarc
welding process. In this process a shielded arc with direct current of 50,000 amp. sq. in. minimum is used, on a continuously fed bare-wire electrode of small diameter.
To start welding,. the electrode or tiller wire is brought forward so that it projects for about in. from the nozzle of the gun. When the trigger is pressed, he welding circuit is switched on and iron starts to flow. The tip of the wire is then brought down to the face of the joint and the arc is struck. At this stage a relay starts the wire-feed motor and the wire is brought forward and the burn-off action continues. Use of the process is not confined to light alloys, for which it is particularly suitable. Stainless steel and copper-base alloys can be welded by it, and copper can be joined to steel, using an aluminium-bronze wire as the filler.
ROOTES HIRE CARS FOR FOREIGN VISITORS •
ASCHEME whereby foreign visitors to this'eountry can place an order for a hire car in their own lands and receive it on arrival in Britain, has been introduced by the Rootes Car Hire Organization, Abbey Hall, St. John's Wood, London, N.W.8. Customers may give an order in any of over 2,000 fawns in America, the Far East and the Commonwealth for a chauffeurdriven or self-driven car of the latest Humber or Hillman type.
From now until the end of the year, several hundreds of cars will leave Abbey Hall at all hours of the day and night for the chief airports and seaports to meet passengers. 'This service will be supplemented by the depots at Manchester, Birmingham, Maidstone, Canterbury, Folkestone and Rochester.
RECONDITIONING OIL DRUMS A MODERN factory for reconditioning oil drums has been built at Colnbrook, Middlesex, by Drum Reconditioners. Ltd. Drums are carried on conveyors, cleaned and restored to their original shape and then painted. The paint is dried in a G.E.C. infra-red oven which is 36 ft. long. Some 200 drums can be stoved per hour.