Big Leyland Export Orders
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AN order. for 80 buses, worth nearly 1320,000, has been received by Leyland Motors, Ltd., from Compania Urguaya de Transportes Colectivos S.A., for operation in Montevideo. This is in addition to the contract for 30 buses placed less than three months ago.
The order calls for 70 Worldmasters and 10 Leyland-M.C.W. Olympic 44-seat buses, all with Leyland 150-b.h.p. oil engines and Pneumo-Cyclic transmissions.
The first Leyland vehiclgs of another large \ order were shipped fIlirn Liverpool last week. They are 10 Super Comet refuse collectors which form part of a 1400,000 order pled by Teheran for municipal vehicles. The Super Comets have Eagle Compressmore 18-26-cu.-yd. refuse-collection bodies.
The Teheran order is for 45 Super Comets, 37 Scammell Scarab 6-ton mechanical horses, 2,000 hand carts and 4,000 dust bins. Scammell 1.0-20-cu.-yd. refuse-collection semi-trailers are to be supplied with 30 of the Scarab mechanical horses. Five of the Scarabs will have sweeper-collector semi-trailers, and the remaining two are to have 800-gal. gullyemptying tank semi-trailers.
Revised Wages Calculator
1—k A REVISED Headlight wages ready reckoner has now been published by "K" Publications (London), Ltd., 46 Islington High Street, London, N.1, price 2s.
In addition to detailing the increased minimum remuneration payable. as from December 19 to road haulage workers employed by )V and B-licence operators, as set out in Wages Regulation R.H.(70), the new rates payable under the British Road Services Arbitration Award, dated November 21, are also included.
Overtime payments are shown for working weeks varying from 45 to 72 hours, together with the appropriate amounts for Saturday and Sunday duties for both private enterprise and B.R.S. workers. Other sections of the Wages Calculator deal with the law regarding wages and conditions for goods vehicles drivers, annual holidays, and time and mileage charts.
TRAFFIC SPEED-UP
PLANS for more than three miles of one-way streets in Central London, including Tottenham Court Road and Gower Street, have been announced by the Minister of Transport.
The scheme, expected to start on May 1, is the first of many now in preparation by the London Traffic Management Unit. It is being introduced to relieve the increasing congestion between Trafalgar Square and Hampstead Road.
T.R.T.A. CO-OPERATION .
THE National Traffic Committee set up by the Traders' , Road Transport Association has decided to make an approach to all highway authorities with a view to extending co-operation on projected traffic moves likely to affect a town's collection and delivery system.
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Where Sidelights Are Not Enough
DRIVERS who use sidelights only in poorly lit roads are condemned in an appeal by the Chief Constable of Lancashire, Colonel T. E. St. Johnston. He has warned them that if they are involved in collisions With cyclists or pedestrians they may be prosecuted for driving without due consideration for other road users.
Criticism is also made of drivers who flash their headlamps at other motorists using dipped headlights, and Colonel Johnston says the police have noticed that drivers of heavy lorries and buses" who are usually particularly courteous" —are prone to this. He asks them to set an example to other road users.
BIRMINGHAM-PRESTON MOTORWAY 1/IR. ERNEST MARPLES, Minister of M Transport. has authorized the Cheshire County Council to invite tenders for the construction of the 15-mile length of the Birmingham-Preston motorway (M6) in North Cheshire, between the A54 at Holmes Chapel and the A56 at Thelwall. It is hoped to start construction in the spring of 1961.
The whole 77-mile motorway between Dunston, just north of Birmingham, and the Preston By-pass should be completed in time for the main summer traffic of 1963.
PERKINS ENGINE FILMS TVVO new 16mm. black-and-white films
have been released by Perkins Engines, Ltd. Both have been made by the Perkins film unit. One is called "The Six 554" and deals with • the development and production of this direct-injection engine. The other is: " Why the Diesel?—No. 1, The Vehicle Operator." This is, a 10-minute film dealing with the operation of oil-engined road -vehicles.
Both films are available on loan free.
Retford Firm Taken Over
THE assets and share capital of I Retford Transport Co., Ltd., Wh Road. Retford, have been taken over J. Clarke (Haulage), Ltd., 202 Holl Lane, Sheffield, 6, The Retford compa wilt run independently of the Sheffiq firm but in conjunction with their otl depots.
Mr. J. Walker, managing director J. Clarke (Haulage), Ltd., becomes mi aging director of the Retford Transp Co., Ltd., and Mr. N. P. Nicholson, Stone Avenue, Sheffield, becomes director and secretary of the company
NEW REGENT TERMINAL THE new £500,000 fuel-oil termir
built for the Regent Oil Company Queen Alexandra Dock, Cardiff, Ns opened recently by the Lord Mayor Cardiff, Alderman Mrs. Dorothy Less Built in under a year, the terminal ss fulfil the dual function of providi Regent with ocean storage in South Wa for fuel oils, and of replacing their prest light oil depot at Penarth by a .mode installation with increased storage cal city and improved distribution faciliti The terminal is built on a 12-acre si leased from the British Transport Coi mission.
1.0.T. MEMBERSHIP UP THERE was an increase of 293 in I I membership of the Institute of Trai port during the year, ended September . One hundred and ninety transferred graduateship and 141 to associate me bership. Student elections were 844 co pared with 902 last year.
In the May examinations 689 can dates were successful, out of 1,425 w sat.
NEW FACTORY
ANEW factory unit at Fenga Peterborough, has been bought George Iles (Peterborough), Ltd., die fuel injection engineers. When they ha moved into the new factory they IA close their present works in South Stre