Buses to Replace Overhead Railway ?
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EXTRA bus services may be provided if the Liverpool overhead railway ceases. The company operating the railway cannot afford or raise the money for reconstruction and renewal of decking. About 12m. passengers a year are carried on the railway, mainly dockers going to and from work.
Mr. M. Arnet Robinson, chairman of the Merseyside Docks and Harbour Board, has stated that the Board could not give the company financial help and therefore could not oppose the directors' intention to promote a Bill to end the company's statutory obligations. This might become effective in July. 1956.
The routing of additional buses would need careful consideration, said Mr. Arnet Robinson.
FREEDOM ON TRIAL
DRIVATE enterprise in haulage was 1 on trial and could succeed only if everyone proved by a high degree of efficiency that a free system would be of advantage to the community,Maj. F. S. Eastwood, Yorkshire Licensing Authority, said at the 'annual dinner of York Sub-area of the Road Haulage Associati2n.
Cllr. W. Bridge, chairman of the West Riding Area, said that the Association were concerned about heavy taxation and the proposal to charge tolls on new highways. Transport users who would have to pay the tolls were strongly opposed to them.
NYLON TARPAULINS?
NEW types of tarpaulin, suitable for coyering loads on lorries and made of proofed nylon, are likely to be developed. A sheet of this material has been tested on a trans-African expedition. It proved resistant to weather and hard use.
Serving as a tilt on a vehicle, it did not flap and could be easily cleaned. The material is tough and light in in weight. Its aluminium colouring reflected much of the sun's heat.
RADIO BOOSTS GOODWILL
ENHANCED goodwill has been one result of installing Pye two-way radio in two vans and an estate car of the Wigmore Laundry, Ltd., 1 Stronsa Road, London, W.12. Contact by radio enables the vans to be diverted from their rounds to customers who request immediate attention, among them diplomats who often have urgent need for laundering.
BIG RAIL RATE RISE?
BIG increases might be found in the revised scale of rail goods charges to be published by the British Transport Commission, said Mr. J. Churm, transport manager of Joseph Sankey and Sons, Ltd., at the annual dinner of the Wolverhampton branch of the Industrial Transport Association, last week.