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CO-ORDINATION OF SOME LONGDISTANCE HAULIERS •
ACERTIFICATE of incorporation has now been received by Sasoelated. Road Transport contractors, Ltd., 320-2, King Street, Hammersmith, London, W.6. The directors will meet in London on September 12 to deal with applications for membership and to allot shares. There have been further applications, despite the fact that the political situation is causing a certain amount of uncertainty with regard to the future of long-diStancetransport.
The feeling, generally, amongst members seems to be that preparations must be made on the assumption that the co-ordination of services and facilities must be advantageous both to traders and operators. It is believed that groups of such companies would provide an excellent answer to the continuation of the M.O.W.T. RHO., as it could cope with the handling of large blocks of 'Government traffic, The new body,is not conceived as a trading concern in competition vitit other hauliers, but is empowered by its articles to accept blocks of traffic for the benefit of its members.
MINISTER PROMISES FUEL FOR DELIVERIES IN a written reply to a question, the Minister of War Transport, Mr. Alfred Barnes, stated, this week, that fuel will, in future, be aVailable for
reasonable retail deliveries. It was often the case, however, that retailers have found it difficult to use the fuel already available because of the-short
age of labour.
YORKSHIRE HOSTEL SCHEME FOR LONG-DISTANCE DRIVERS
HAULIERS are financing a Yorkshire scheme embracing the provision ef sleeping quarters for long-distance drivers, a cafe, and facilities ler the garaging. servicing and repairing of vehicles, close by the cross-roads at Gildersome, where the Leeds-Huddersfield and Bradford-Wakefield highways interseet. The premiser which it is intended to use comprise what was formerly a mansion, Dean Hurst, Gelderd Road, Gildersome—at pre,sene. occupied by the Army.
The property has been purchased by Mr. Benjamin Spink, the Leeds haulage contractor, and a private limited company is being formed to put the project into operation so soon as the military leave. The company, which it is proposed to call Dean 'Hurst Motors, Ltd., will have a nominal capital of ,C2,000.
In pre-war clays a public garage and a cafe were carried on at Dean Hurst, but there was no sleeping accommodation. Equipment is now available to sleep a dozen men, and these facilities will be extended if the demand warrants it: It is hoped to provide 24-hours-aday facilities, whereby while a driver is sleeping, or having a meal, his vehicle can be serviced.
There is a garage which will house
aoout 10 lorries, as clitinct from tile repair workshop, and adjacent to the one-time mansion there is ripen-air parking space for some 50 vehicles -away from the road,
MINISTER APPOINTS HIS PRIVATE STAFF THE new Minister of War Transport, 1 Mr. A. Barnes, M.P. has appointed Mr. G. Morris to be his private secretary, and MisS B. J. de Livers as his assistant private secretary.
A DENIAL OF COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
IT is pointed out to us by Captain C. A. Elliott that he is not a member of the Committee. of the London Centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration, and the use of his name in that connection was unauthorized,
LIQUID FUEL PRICES REDUCED
ASOMEWHAT surprising reduction has been made in the prices of liquid fuels. These were announced last Monday by the Minister of Fuel and Power. The reason given is the decreased cost of importing petroleum products following the termination of the war and the cessation of convoys in the Atlantic. The reductions are as follow:–•-Motor epirit, 2d. per gallon, making the expump price of Pool Is. 111-d., and the wholesale price Is. 8d. per gallon, in England and Wales and the South Scotland zone; oil fuel for road vehicles, Id. per gallon; burning fuel (paraffin), licl. per gallon; vaporizing oil, Id. per gallon; white spirit, lid. per gallon; gas oil. Diesel oil (other than for road vehicles), fuel oil and heavy fuel oil, id. per gallon; creosote/pitch mixture, 123. per ton; bitumen, 18s. per ton..
SIR MILES THOMAS, D.F.C.,' TO LECTURE TO THE
THE inaugural lecture of the first winter session arranged by the Instituteof Road Transport Engineers, will be delivered by Sir Miles Thomas.; D.F.C„ vice-chairman of the Nuffield Organization, on Thursday, October 18, at 6 p.m. This meeting will be held in. the rooms of the Royal Society of Arts, John Adam Street, Adelphi, W.C.2.
The subject matter of the lecture by Sir Miles will, 'in part, deal with the manner in which the Institute and its objects can help to co-ordinate the experience of the road transport operating engineer with that Of the Vehicle Manufacturer.
WHERE NATIONALIZATION MAY APPLY
A SIGNIFICANT statement con cerning nationalization, was made recently by Mr. Herbert Morrison. He said, in effect, that this form of control would be put. into action oily if private enterprise could not prove itself capable of giving the desired results. We take it that this applies only to those trades and industries which the Government has not specifically referred to as being subject to nationalization.
SPECIAL LA.E. MEETING IN LONDON
A SPECIAL meeting of -corporate P-1. members of the Institution of Automobile Engineers is to be held at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Storey's Gate, 'London, S.W.4, at 5.30 p.m., on .September 11. In the .notice it is pointed out that the meeting is to consider a proposal of great importance to the future of the I.A.E. which will affect all its members. Details of this will be given later, but the President hopes that all will attend the Meeting who can possibly make the necessary arrangements. REPORT BAD ROADS TO T.R.T.A.
THE Traders Road Transport Asoelation is is asking its members to bring to the notice of their area secretaries cases where road conditions have become particularly bad. Full details should, of course, be given. This will . enable such cases to be reported to the 'responsible authorities.
EARLY FREEING OF VEHICLES
RECENTLY. " The Wall Street Journal " predicted that the rapid surrender of Japan, would quickly bring adjustments in rationing, so far as America was concerned, It Stated that pneumatic tyres would be freed within 30-60 days, whilst new loFries would be issued for only essential use tor a few months, but freed by the end of the year.
KICK OUT THE LIGHT
A• FOOT-OPERATED switch for dimming or extinguishing head or fog lamps; is now being made by TricoFoIberth, Ltd., Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex. Fitted to the floorboards, one kick turns the light out and a second kick turns the light on again. It should be found to be a' useful accessory; it retails at flo. 6d. and the part number is I-1175-A.
WILL ATOMIC ENERGY SUPERSEDE COAL?
MANY and varied have been the comments concerning the future of atomic energy, 'and some people with to •have all—experiments in this direction suppressed. That, however, seems to us to be a foolish policy. Instead, let every encouragement be given towards discovering methods of controlling the speed of fission, so that the power and heat generated can be usefully employed. Atomic energy might even eventually replace .coal. This last point is out of particular interest, for if coal were no longer required, the Nation would, through the Governmantis nationalization yrogramme. be " buying " an asset of' a value which might diminish to nil, but even such a drastic matter must not 'be allowed to impede progress, nor .reduce any. Ultimate benefit conferred by the utilization of a perpetual source of power.
BRISTOL INDUSTRIES TRADING RESULTS
THE report of riistol Industries, Ltd., for the five months ended March 31 last—this being the new date of the company's financial year—shows a trading profit of £50,507, this amount being increased to £66,526 after adding dividends on investments and loan interes't and the balance (£8,774) brought forward from the previous
year. After transferring £35,000 to taxation account, paying a dividend on the preference shares for the five months (£5,417), making provision for depreciation (£1,359), etc., there remains a credit balance of £24,693. A dividend of 10 per cent. is to be paid on the ordinary shares, which will absorb £17,000 and leave £7,693 to be carried forward, subject only to directors' fees.
MOTOR INDUSTRY RESUMES TRADE WITH SWEDEN
THE recent arrival in Stockholm of Fordson vans and tractors and Ford cars marks the resumption of British trade with' Sweden. The consigntnent consisted of 21 vehicles made at the Ford works at Dagenham, being samples of British products for which the Swedish people have been waiting for nearly six years. These are the first vehicles and tractors to arrive in
, Sweden since the German capitulation.
NORTH-WEST GROCERS DEMAND MORE FUEL
ADEMAND from the Northern Council of Grocers' Associations for more commercial petrol is to be beard by the National Grocers' Federation. Traders in the north-west, and particularly in the outlying country . districts, claim that under the present petrol restrictions they are unable to operate efficient delivery systems, and they wish to resume individual services at the earliest. possible moment,
They claim that priority should have been given to commercial users before the basic petrol ration to private users.
COMMERCIAL CONDITIONS IN EGYPT
A REVIEW of commercial c5nditions in Egypt has been published
by the Department of Overseas Trade, and is obtainable, at Is, net, from H.M. Stationery Office, York House, Iiinasway, .London, W.C.2, or through any bookseller, It surveys comprehensively the
growth of industrialization in Egypt during the war, and the possible postwar market for goods of U.K. manufacture. Other reviews covering different countries have been issued, and may be obtained from the same source, at 6d. or Is., according to length. Subscription rate for the entire series of 28 countries IS £1, and they will be delivered as published.
BUSES WHICH START WITHOUT • WARNING
LONDON Transport recently appealed La to the public to report cases where buses moved from the stops without waiting for the starting bell, It was stated that all that would be required as as the number of the vehicle or,
• failing that, in the case of a disembarking passenger, the ticket.
This is the result of many complaints of minor accidents consequent upon this increasing habit, which we have noted on many occasions.
The request has caused some ill feeling amongst both drivers and conductors, some conductors claiming that when they are at the front of the upper deck of a trolleybus they report this clear by pushing the bell or stamping, whilst the driver looks around to see if anyone is getting on to the step or alighting from it. It seems, however, that this practice must now stop.
The new address of the 'Manchester service depot of Wellworthy Piston Rings, Ltd., is 8, Oxford Road, Manchester, I.
An area, office at 109, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has been opened by David Brown and Sons (Huddersfield), Ltd. AIR-CONDITIONED TROLLEYBUS IN AMERICA I T is announced by the Pullman
Standard Car Manufacturing Co. of America that it will soon deliver its first air-conditioned trolleybus, which will be used experimentally in Atlanta by the Georgia Power Co. It is one of 323 similar vehicles authorized by the War Production Board for constructionthis year.
The air in this new type is ma intamed at a constant temperature, and burnified when required, whilst the volume passing through the vehicle is about twice that afforded in inter-city buses, this being rendered necessary by heavy loading in the rush hours and by frequent operation of the doors.
FOR BUSINESS MEN TRAVELLING ABROAD
FURTHER booklets in the series " Hints to Business Men," issued by the Department of Overseas Trade and obtainable from H.M. Stationery Office, concern Persia and Ecuador and Peru.