Council Attacks Al.o.T. Restrictions
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ENTIRELY unjustified by the facts" is how Bromley Town Council have described the Ministry of Transport's proposals to ban loading and unloading of vehicles in the town between 8.30-10 a.m.
Aid. C. L Smith, chairman of the highways committee, has said that congestion was caused not by vehicles, but pedestrians. It was essential that vehicles should be .allowed to unload early in the morning before pedestrians appeared in numbers.
The council are to tell the Mintstry that they are opposed to the increasing use of traffic restrictions to overcome the Government's inability to proceed with long-delayed highway improvements.
E.R.F.-ROLLS-ROYCE TRACTOR WITH TORQUE CONVERTER
AN E.R.F. tractor with a Rolls-Royce C6N six-cylindered oil engine and Twin Disc-type torque converter has been introduced to operate in conjunction with a steel side-tipping semi-trailer built to carry 50-ton loads a lime, The outfit, which will operate at a gross laden weight of 81 tons, has been built for the Lime Division of Imperial Chemical Industries at Buxton. The gearbox of the tractor provides three speeds and reverse. The 200-b.h.p. engine drives through a single-plate clutch. Air-pressure braking is provided. The interior length of the body of the semi-trailer is 22 ft. It is made of Fin. thick steel plate.
PRIVATE TEST GROUND
PA.A PRIVATE proving ground for testing brake facings has been built at Chapel-en-le-Frith by Ferodo, Ltd., to avoid the need for travelling to Lindley track or the disused airfield at Ashbourne. The course is 700 yd. long and follows part of the route of the historic Peak Forest tramway which was laid down in the late 18th century and was closed about 35 years ago,