"Enforce Limits More Strictly
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c TIM-MR enforcement of spe k..J. limits and greater use of traffic ligl were suggested as means for increasi road safety by Mr. A. L. Goodha Master of University College, Oxfcr in a paper read to the Association Municipal Corporations in Blackpc on Wednesday.
It was, he said, more important safety to spend money on expanding t police force and to provide for prof inspection of -Vehicles than tO bn roads, the primary purpose of whi was to accelerate traffic. The suggesti that the road user had a direct right the money he paid in taxation did r seem to be justified.
Commenting upon the opposition the Traders' Road Transport Assoc tion to Oxford Corporation's restrictic upon loading and unloading, 11. Gooclhart stated; "Although it obviously desirable that traffic shot be interrupted as little as possible, t interests of our cities and towns shot not be sacrificed to this."
SPECIAL VEHICLES FOR CARBC BLACK
AFLEET of road vehicles specia designed for the bulk handling carbon black is now running betwe the new plants at Ellesmere Port a Avonmouth and the factories of t Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., Birmingham and Speke.
A totally enclosed conveyor syst( has been deVised_ for delivering t material from the vehicles into t factory machines. Each unit can cal 11-12 tons of powder. The hoppers I. of mild steel treated with Valsr varnish to help the flow of the blal They are filled from the top.
There are four outlets at the botto each fitted with a butterfly valve a bolted hinge cap to prevent the pow( from escaping in transit. When vehicle arrives at the factory, it is plac in position over one of the Red intake conveyors. The caps are swu open and a flexible sleeve from the t of the conveyor is connected to ea hopper outlet.