Tankers Earn £18,000 in Eight Months
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THE tanker fleet operated by Yorkshire Transporters, Ltd., Batley, earned £18,000 in eight months, and in the same period £14,000-worth of work was given to sub-contractors, it was stated at Leeds last week. The company were applying to vary the conditions of a B-licence vehicle, so that it could carry creosote oil from Kilnhurst to London and from London to Mirfield for two customers. Mr. R. Chappell, a director, said the business was fast becoming more of a clearing house than a haulage concern. They were not applying to take transport away from anyone, but merely, wished to cut down the sub-contracting. At present their A-licence vehicles were fully employed, but the vehicle on B licence could be used more. For British Railways, Mr. T. B. Atkinson suggested that existing facilities were adequate, and pointed to the fact that no witnesses had been called. Mr. J. H. A. Randolph, Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, adjourned the hearing for witnesses to be produced.
BULK FEVTILIZER FOR FARMS INSCOTLAND
FE.RTILIZER is now being delivered in bulk to farms by Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd. Four 2-ton steel bins containing concentrated granular fertilizer may be loaded on a platform lorry, and unloaded by being jacked on to tubular legs so that the vehicle is withdrawn from underneath them. Mechanical spreaders are then placed under traps in the bins for gravity loading. One man can remove the bins in half an hour. The bin system is being introduced in Perthshire and in counties south of the Forth and Tay.
The new method allows up to 110 acres to be treated in a day at the rate of 3-4 cwt. per acre, compared with 50 acres a day by conventional methods.
COUNCIL TOLD: DO NOT BUY AN OILER QHOULD a local authority invest in oil-engined refuse collectors. or do petrol-driven vehicles work out cheaper? This problem faced Liskeard (Cornwall) Health Committee, last week, when they discussed the purchase of a new refuse collector. They decided on a petrol vehicle after listening to Mr. George Mitchell, an agricultural merchant. He declared that to buy an oiler was , really uneconomical. He had bought one himself, but he did not recover the extra cost of the engine as against a petrol model until the vehicle had covered 45,000 miles. by which time it needed replacing.
PAID CHIEF FOR R.H.A.?
HEADQUARTERS of the Road Haulage Association are still awaiting replies from area committees on the question whether a full-time paid president should be appointed. Some of the areas so far have replied, but their views are at present unknown.
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B.M.C. Praise for " Heavy " Operator
THE average motorist tends to look upon heavy vehicles as encumbrances on the road, without stopping to think of the important work they perform for him. This was stated last week by Mr, D. Harrison, home sales director of the British Motor Corporation, when he opened a new Morris-Commercial depot for the City Motor Co. (Cardiff), Ltd.
"The irritations we have to suffer will,
think, gradually disappear by virtue of the road programme," he forecast. The only reason heavy vehicles seemed to delay other traffic was because of the country's poor roads system. The new depot covers 23,000 sq. ft., with a large showroom, workshops, a lubrication bay, a paint shop and offices.
"Air—coach" Experiment Results Announced
D ESULTS an experimental hell ' copter service between Caen and Le Havre, introduced as an alternative to coaches, were announced on Tuesday. 'The service was operated from July 25 to August 31 by Les Courriers Normands and Compagnie Normande d'Autobus, two Normandy subsidiaries of the-Societe Generale de Transports Departementaux, of Paris. The object, as stated in The Commercial Motor on June 20. was to test public reaction rather than to compare costs with the existing coach service. In the five weeks of the test, three return flights were made daily, with stops at Ouistreham, Cabourg, Deauville and Honfleur. The route distance was 42# miles and about 100 passengers were carried daily in the Vertol 44 15-seat aircraft. On scheduled and supplementary services, an average of 52.5 per cent. of the available seating capacity was taken up, increasing to 61.4 per cent. during the August holiday period. Including landing and take-off, the average speed of the service was 621 m.p.h.
BIG LOSS FOR GUY
.1-1. A SERIOUS setback was experienced by Guy Motors, Ltd., in the past financial year, mainly because their South African subsidiary incurred a loss of £125,942. The total group loss was £186,839. The South African company lost money heavily on hire-purchase transactions with native bus operators. The parent company was adversely affected by the decline in the home demand for buses and the cancellation of an important Government contract. The directors believe that the company's new models will turn the tide.
FASTER COACH DELIVERY
A NEW agreement between Commet Cars, Ltd.. Luton, and H. V. Burlingham, Ltd., Blackpool, is designed to speed deliveries of Avenger-Burlingham Seagull 41-seat coaches. To take advantage of the arrangements, operators should place their chassis orders direct with the Luton factory, at the same time ordering the bodywork direct from Burlingham. Orders placed within the next few weeks will be met by the middle of January. Under the new agreement, favourable discount terms, retrospective annually, have been arranged.
OBITUARY
WE regret to record the deaths of MR. RICHARD FINDLAY, MR. FREDERICK PEAKE and MR. JOHN H. MAIL. Mr. Findlay, aged 58, was area sales manager at Newcastle upon Tyne for the Avon India Rubber Co., Ltd.
Mr. Peake had been a director of the Potteries Motor Traction Co., Ltd., since 1944. He was 71. Mr. Hall, a director of Hall Bros. (South Shields). Ltd.. bus operators, was 51.