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Services Must Be Flexible'
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SIR REGINALD WILSON, managing director of the Transport Holding Company, told the Merseyside and District section of the Institute of Transport, at its annual dinner last Friday at Liverpool, that he was getting fed up with blueprints for transport—they could be so misleading and dangerous. The prior need was to consider the philosophies of transport and then work out policies to prepare blueprints for any form of transport, he said. There must be flexible and adjustable services to suit customers by whose support alone public transport could survive.
"There is too much jargon today about blueprints which, in the scheme of things, should come last, not first," said Sir Reginald. "We should examine how we can get the fruits of co-ordination, which are sensible, without having organizational monstrosities. There are too many theorists in transport who know too little about practical things."
It was announced on Wednesday that Mr. Brian Harbour has been appointed a part-time director of the T.H.C., coinciding with his retirement from the London Transport Board.
Preston's Bulk Vehicles DRESTON CORPORATION'S yearly collection of around 34,000 tons of refuse, formerly taken to a 60-year-old destructor, is now being collected from a two-level transfer station--on the site of the old destructor—by four top-loading bulk vehicles and transported to a dump. Refuse accumulated on the top floor of the transfer station is loaded through floor apertures into the bulk vehicles, which all have Leyland Octopus eightwheeled chassis. Two of the vehicles have 49-cu.-yd. moving-floor bodies built by Glover, Webb and Liversidge Ltd., while two have compression bodies built by Powell Duffryn -Engineering Ltd., despite a smaller capacity (38 cu. yd.) the latter are rated for a heavier load.
All four vehicles have been finished in a special Nitolux protective paint made by Chemical Building Products Ltd.
Prof. Buchanan At London Conference TW0 weeks after the publication on November 27 of his "Traffic in Towns" report, Professor Cohn Buchanan will be speaking about it to 1,000 delegates at the European conference, Peoples and Cities, organized in London by the British Road Federation in association with the Town Planning Institute.
The 56-year-old professor will be the first speaker after the Minister of Transport has opened the conference. He is Professor of Transport at Imperial College, London University, and was from 1960 until recently the Minister's Urban Roads Adviser.
Twelve internationally known speakers will address the conference, which will be at Friends House, Euston Road. N.W.I, on December 10, 11 and 12.