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MR. J. H. STIRK, East Midland Licensing Authority, is to marry Miss Joyce Alice Cantwell-Bradey.
ALD. WALTER BRADLEY has been re-elected chairman of Bolton Transport Committee, with Coun. Haslam in place of Aid. Russell as vice-chairman. Aid. Bradley is head of a motor engineering business in the town, and is well known in national organizations connected with commercial-vehicle usage.
MR. ARTHUR R. JONES, of Arthur R. Jones, Ltd., insurance broker to the C.M.U.A., has been chosen to stand as Conservative candidate for Leeds :City Council, in a vacancy resulting from an aldermanic appointment. During his previous membership of 'the council, from 1931 to 1937, Mr. Jones did outstanding work as chairman of the city's publicity committee, now called the development committee.
MR. F. E. Cox, consequent upon his appointment to the position of London and southern sales manager for the Aero Piston Ring Co., Leeds, has relinquished the offices of hon. secretary of the Mid-Yorkshire Centre of the Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund and hon. secretary of the Leeds Centre of
the I.M.T. MR. G. H. CLARK, of Pointing, Ltd., Leeds, has accepted the former office for the time being, and Mr. Cox's I.M.T. duties have been taken over by MR. F. Locxw000, of Messrs. Lockwood and Clarkson, Leeds.
MAJOR F. S. EASTWOOD, A.R.P. officer at Belfast, and formerly transport expert to the British Oxygen Co.
• and its subsidiaries, is likely to become chairman of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, also Yorkshire Licensing Authority, on the retirement of Mr. Joseph Farndale, at the end of this year.
Major Eastwood, who is 42 years of age, entered the transport field following his retirement from the Army in 1930. He was in practice as a transport adviser in London 'until 1934, then became traffic expert to the British Oxygen concern and its subsidiaries, and remained in that post until February of this year.
New Bristol Bridge to Relieve Dock Traffic.
The Minister of Transport has made a grant to Bristol County Borough Council for the construction of a new lift bridge, of the bascule type, over the floating harbour. The bridge, which is estimated to cost over £80,000, represents the last stage in the construction of Western Road, the new ring road, which has been driven through the densely built-up area between St. Augustine's Parade and Victoria Street. It will span the arm of the floating harbour known as Welsh Back and will
permit the passage of dock traffic to and from the northern part of the harbour. Work will be put in hand shortly and it is hoped to complete the scheme in 1940.
Bag-filling by Hand Simplified.
Two men, it is claimed, can fill 240 bags per hour with the aid of the Sharp bag-filling device. This is a piece of equipment, costing only £4 10s., that has just been introduced by the Sharp Welding Co., Park Avenue, North Circular Road. London, N.W .10.
Briefly, the apparatus consists of a hopper, shaped something like a large bottomless bucket, supported, about 2 ft. above the ground, on a collapsible tripod. In use, one man holds the mouth of the sack around the base of the hopper while the second man shovels the substance to be bagged into the hopper. The device is light but strong.
It should prove of great value to a wide variety of operators.
"SAFETY FIRST" IN SCOTLAND.
An appeal for an extension of the activities of the " Safety First " Council, in Scotland, was made by Lord Provost Henry Steele, Edinburgh, when he welcomed delegates from all towns and county councils in Scotland to a special safety-first conference in Edinburgh last week. The conference adopted the following resolution, submitted by Chief Constable J. H. Cowdie, of Paisley:—" That the activities of the Scottish ' Safety First ' Council be extended by inviting all local authorities which are subscribers to the national movement, to become federated, on the basis of each sending one or more representatives and that the Scottish 'Safety First' Council should meet not less than four times each year.'' Railway's "No Need For Licence" Overruled.
When John H. Brough and Co., Ltd., of Beeston, Notts., applied for the renewal of an existing B licence, without modification, at the East Midland Traffic Court on Monday, Mr. L. 'W. A. White (for the applicant) said he failed to understand why the railway companies objected to the application, since his client had been carrying goods for Messrs. John Player and Sons for•the past 12 years without opposition. The railways had also been doing the same type of work for a long time.
Mr. Hodgson, for the railway companies, said they contended that the applicant's journeys for Messrs. Player were too infrequent, and there was no need for a licence.
Mr. J. H. Stirk said that as 13rough and Co., Ltd., had been employed for 12 years by Messrs. Players, he would grant the renewal.