TRANSPORT IS CHAOS, SAYS MR. BEVIN.
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While the Minister of Transport has been talking about transport, little constructive work has been done, says Mr. Ernest Bevin, in his annual review of the work of the Transport and General Workers Union. British transport, he says, is in nearly as chaotic a state as it was during the war, and there appears to be no conception . of the organization necessary to meet the contingencies which might arise as a result of hostilities.
The desire of the Union, states Mr. Bevin, is to secure an efficient transport system, which, whether goods be carried by road or by rail, will be contributing to the common pool. .Moreover, the wages of the men in one or other branch of the transport industry mast not be depressed through stupid competition.
New Share Issue for Large Transport Concern.
Yesterday, the lists closed for an offer of 141,500 6 per cent, redeemable cumulative preference shares of at 20s. 6d. per share and 141,500 ordinary shares of 5s. each at 7s. per share in Transport Services, Ltd.
References to the ramifications of I his concern have been made from time to time in this journal, and it will be remembered that it comprises one of the largest groups of commercialvehicle operators in the country; it also operates freight broking services.
The company has acquired the entire issued capital of eight concerns, and the groupings of these businesses will eliminate the duplication of services and depots, increase efficiency and lead to economy in the organization.
£30,000 Irish Contract for Leylands.
An order for 50 goods vehicles, to the value of about £30,000, has been placed with Leyland Motors, Ltd., by the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board, The machines, which are of a lighter type than those hitherto supplied by the company to the Board, are oil-engined forward-control
Badgers a model with a nominal payload of five tons—and they are to have a special wheelbase of 13 ft. and a 6.5-to-1 rear-axle ratio_
Oil-bath-type air cleaners will he fitted to the engines, and the specification includes a 24-volt lighting system, incorporating Simms units on 25 machines, and C.A.V.-Bosch units on the others. Since its inception, the Board has taken delivery of 47 Leyland oil-engined 7-tonners and 36 passenger vehicles of the same make.
The death has occurred of Mr. J. R. M, Little, who looked after the interests of Hepworth and Grandage. Ltd., on the South Coast and in the Isle of Wight. He was only 27 years old, and, prior to joining the cornwas an engineer-instructor with the Royal Air Force.