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THE six-word paragraph with which Mr. H. Bottomley, general manager of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., opened his paper to the Public Transport Association at Scarborough yesterday, was as bracing as any I have read. "I am proud of our industry," he declaimed.
The reason? "It has made greater contributions towards the stabilization of the cost-of-living index than any other comparable form of service to the community, and, whilst doing so, has, in general terms, improved the quality of its service."
Super Salesman
mR. D. G. STOKES, director and general sales and service manager of Leyland Motors, Ltd., and a director of many of the group companies in Britain and abroad, is now one of the vice-presidents of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. If he did not live for work he would be quite unable to tackle all that he takes on.
Ten years ago he obtained Britain's largest single dollar order for 620 Leyland Royal Tiger buses for Cuba, valued at SlOm. Since then he has built up Leyland's exports to well over £30m. a year. Now he is competing with the U.S.A. on its own ground, and has made a good start in the sale of Leyland lorries in America. It is small wonder that he spends his life in a suitcase.
Model Trainee
mR. J. E. BECKETT, chairman of Beckett, Laycock and Watkinson, Ltd., is so proud of a scale model of the Acton Lane Works, which has been made for him by an 18-year-old second-year trainee, that he is likely to include it in the company's exhibits at the Commercial Motor Show this year.
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It's Cold Inside
SPECIAL 5,000-gal. road tankers are being used in America to carry liquid hydrogen produced at —423°F. in the marshlands of West Palm Beach, Florida. The daily evaporation loss in transit is about 1 per cent. only, but an even better insulated 7,000-gal. vehicle is going into service, which will have a still lower evaporation loss. The liquid hydrogen is fuel for space vehicles.
Money Back mEw ZEALAND, with 40,000 additional vehicles every year, I now ranks second in the list of highly motorized nations, having one vehicle to every three people. Moreover, owners of motor vehicles have the comfort of knowing that the taxes they pay are used on the roads. Indeed, the roads are even subsidized from the Exchequer. Britain, please copy.
'he Brick
IONVERSATION with Mr. George Beharrell is apt to have its unexpected and disconcerting moments. As a world iveller, he knows the local characteristics of Ski Paulo as timately as Salisbury, Rhodesia.
"What do you think of Johannesburg?" Harold Champion ked him—and rushed in unguardedly with his own comment at it was a city with soul well dead and stomach well alive. Quietly, Mr. Beharrell produced his ace. " Oh, I like it well ough. You see, I met my wife there! "
nlightenment
GATHER that the three front-entrance, centre-exit singledeckers ordered by London Transport are not likely to go to service until about August or September. The buses will Ale A.E.C. Reliance chassis and Willowbrook bodies and, reported in The Commercial Motor on February 19, are :ended for one-man operation.
The driver of a London pay=as-you-enter single-decker to Lam I was talking the other day was all in favour of the item. Not only did he appreciate the cost saving on thinly pulated routes, but he found that driving this type of vehicle Ls far less boring than driving one with a conductor, when only had the bell to relieve the monotony. Moreover, he 1 not have to stop when it was not necessary and then wait the starting signal.
5r the Cats WAREHOUSE manager tells me that the playing of jazz on the depot broadcasting system has an electrifying effect the loading of vans. He particularly recommends records Count Basic.