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B.E.T. Increased Profit.

30th June 1931, Page 41
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After payment of dividends, the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., expects to have a net surplus profit on the past year's working of £80,000. The chairman stated that the company's holding in the ordinary shares of the Tilling and British Automobile Traction, Ltd., was worth well over £1,250,000.

The M.T.T.A. Annual Conference.

The 30th annual conference of the Municipal Tramways and Transport Association was arranged at Southampton last week, commencing with an informal reception by the president, Mr. R. Stuart Pilcher, F.R.S.E., M.Inst.T., at the South Western Betel on Tuesday evening. The presidential address and general meeting were fixed for the following day, including a talk • on the compression-ignition engine, introduced by Mr. W. Vane Morland, of Walsall. The afternoon programme comprised a joint paper, on' the Road Traffic Act, 1930, and the final report of the Royal Commission on Transport, by Messrs. 2 f . Barnard, M.,B.E., of Bolton, J. F. Cameron, of Northampton, and A. R. Fearnley, of Sheffield, this being followed by the annual association dinner. The Thursday programme included a paper on the passengertransport outlook by Mr. J. M. Calder, of Reading, and a luncheon aboard the . " Aquitania," whilst Friday was set aside for a trip on the M.S. "Medina " at the invitation of Sir John and Lady Thornycroft.

The Eleventh Exide Convention, • The Exide Service Convention, which was held in Bournemouth this month, is an annual affair, this being the 11th meeting. Its object is to improve the

service rendered in connection with Exide batteries, and 600 agents in the British Isles were represented, as well as many others 'from overseas. The Proceedings provided for the reading of a number of practical papers ; amongst them were discussions of battery repairs, bus-lighting batteries, etc. These discussions were supplemented by demonstrations of a service and -charging bench and an exhibition of batteries.

Belfast Municipal Transport During the year ended March 31st last there was a working profit of £3,060 on the bus section of the Belfast Corporation passenger-transport undertaking. After taking loan charges and other items into account the deficiency on the year's operations was £13,716. As the tramways undertaking showed a surplus of £87,299, the disposable surplus amounted to £73,583.

A Bold Scheme for Linking Liverpool and North \Vales.

A particularly interesting scheme to assist efficient transport and relieve unemployment has been put forward in Transport Management by Councillor H. H. Nuttall, of Edge Hill Ward, Liverpool. In brief, it is to construct an embankment from the Red Rocks, Hoylake, to Hilbre Island, and from a point on the Welsh coast, near Talacre, to within a short distance of Hilbre Island, linking the two sections by a bridge over the Hilbre Channel. The embankment would be sufficiently wide to carry a 36-ft roadway, a footpath and a double railway track. With slight extensions of the railways, direct road and rail communication would be established between Liverpool and the entire North Wales coast. It would shorten the rail distance from Liverpool to North Wales by about 30 miles, and the road would gain by at least 18 There are no anticipated natural difficulties, and it will be possible to reclaim a very big area of land on both sides of the River Dee. The outlay will be something like £6,000,000, -and large numbers of men will be employed for about five years.

A New Refuse.collection System ?

During 1929 and 1930 Westminster City Council carried out tests with several types of refuse-collection vehicle and a report on the subject, giving the cost per ten „and a summary of the cleansing surveyor's impressions, has just been issued.

The surveyor is to prepare another detailed report outlining various schemes for reorganizing the refusecollection system. Three types of vehicle have been selected as suitable for use in Westminster.

These are the Faun or similar design; a rotary collector with a tractor, or any other vehicle enabling the system of changing over bins to be operated; and, thirdly, a vehicle with a low-loading line and an enclosed body capable of being used solely for refuse collection, or, alternatively, with a closed body which can be employed for purposes other than refuse collection.

Renewal of Licences.

To-day (June 30th) marks the expiry of a considerable number of Road Fund licences. Immediate application for renewal should be made.

Accounts of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd.

For the year ended March 31st a dividend of 10 per cent, has been declared on the ordinary shares of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd. Out of a total revenue of £1,115,486 the net profit amounts to £74,065, as against £50,942 in the previous year ; the sum of £43,159 is to be carried forward. During the year the rolling stock has been increased and businesses have been acquired at Burnley, Chorley, Dalton-inFurness and Fleetwood.

New Bus Garage at Glasgow.

Subject to approval by Glasgow Corporation a new bus garage at Parkheacl will be constructed ; this will he additional to the existing tramway depot. The estimated cost is £16,000, and the building will house 70 double-deckers. This scheme will facilitate the provision of extended services to the cast end of the city.

• Helping the Small Owner.

The Midlands Area Omnibus and Coach Owners Association, whose sphere of activities extends over a wide area from the East Coast to Wales, has recently been able to secure valuable trade concessions for its 1,200 members. In addition to protecting smaller concerns against the coMpetition, of powerful combines and the provision of free legal advice, the association has now made arrangements with two wellknown oil companies which will enable small owners to enjoy; the same favourable trade terms as those granted to large concerns.

Tenders for the sole right of supplying oil were invited from 21 concerns, and one of the two to receive the' official recommendation of the association was C. C. Wakefield and Co., Ltd., the all-British maker of Castro]. oil.

Guy Motors' Account.

The accounts of Guy Motors, Ltd., covering the period ended December 31st last, reveal a loss of £186,723. . To Meet this, £140,000 is transferred from the reserve, whilst the balance is extinguished by reducing the sum carried forward from £62,780 to £16,057. The general reserve now stands at £10,982. During the year the concern has purchased patent and manufacturing rights for electrical arrangements for trolleybuses ; it previously manufactured them under royalty.

World's Motor-vehicle Production: Britain's Small Decrease.

We learn that in 1930 4,109,000 vehicles were produced ; this represents a decrease of 34.6 per cent, as compared with the record year 1929. So far as this country is concerned the S.M.M. and T. figures show that the decrease is under I. per cent—a decrease very much smaller than that of any other of the principal producing coun

tries. Home sales were fully maintained; the decrease was in exports.


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