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RESTRICTED EXPORTS TO SOUTH AFRICA

31st July 1942, Page 21
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THE export of all goods to South Africa and Southern Rhodesia is now subject to licence. Another Order by the Board of Trade, which will also come into effect on August 3, is that all export licences for those destinations (other than issued to the respective High Coin missioners, and to certain semi-official bodies) granted before July 3 will be revoked.

SALFORD BUSES PUT TRAMS IN THE SHADE

SALFORD CORPORATION trans. port undertaking made a net surplus of £231 on the past year's working, Although the buses made a profit of £51.234, a loss of £31,000 was matamed on the trams. During the year 700,000 fewer passengers were carried by the trams compared with the previous 12 months, but the number carried by the buses increased from 69,241,000 to 74,631,000.

ASSOCIATION'S AWARDS TO PASSENGER TRANSPORT MEN

THE two prizes awarded in connection with the Municipal Passenger Transport Association's essay cdmpetition have been awarded to two members of Manchester Corporation transport department's staff. They are Mr. Norman Morton, technical assistant at the Parrs Wood garage, and Mr. J. H. Trueman, divisional inspector of the traffic department. This is the second successive year that Mr. Morton has secured an award.

MANY A MICKLE MAKES A MUCKLE

THERE are far too many people who, whilst fully cognizant of the need for saving paper and who even advise others to prevent waste, themselves pay little attention to this point. Sometimes it is because the amount of paper which they would have to save is so small as to be considered by them to be negligible, but this is a grave mistake, and the bus ticket is a good example. ComparatiVely insignificant in itself, it represents an expenditure of many hundreds of tons of paper a year, most of which could be saved if passengers exercised more care.

ANOTHER TRANSPORT PIONEER PASSES

MITH the death Ga. Mr. Alfred W Allchin, on July 16, at the age of 78, passed a man who had a considerable hand in the development of road transport. Some 28 years ago he invented for motor vehicles, and provisionally patented, an electrically Lighted signalling arm worked by Bowden cable, but, like many other inventors ahead of their time, he had the trouble and expense without recompense. Later, with his son, Mr. A, W. AlIchin, he established a long-distance service operating from Northampton and covering 78 towns throughout the Midlands, also to the East Coast, London, Brighton, Hastings, Torquay, etc., a fleet of some 54 vehicles being .employed. • Allchin coaches, about the year 1928, carried the D6minion Premiers to 'Rugby Radio Station, from

which the first radio telegram was sent to Australia.

Mr. Allchin was a descendant of the old engineering family in Northampton, which produced the Allchin steam wagons at a time when their operation was restricted to 4 m.p.h. and a man with a red flag had to walk in front.

INSTITUTE OF WELDING ISSUES PROGRESS REPORT

THOSE interested in welding will find 1 much of value in the Fifth Progress Report of the VVelding Research Council, published, at ,5s., by the Institute of Welding, 2, Buckingham Palace Gardens, London, S.W.1. It contains a review of the work of this Council over a Period of five years, as well as for the year ended March 31 last.

M.A.A. STARTS NEW SECTION IN . YORKSHIRE

ANEW local section of the Motor Agents' Association has been formed in Yorkshire, to cover Wensleydale and Swaledale. Known as the Dales Section, it was launched recently at a meeting at Bedale. The chairman is Mr. A. Brand, of Messrs. Brand's Garage, Richmond, and the hon. .seciktary is Mr. G. Blissett, of Bedale GaMge, Ltd., Bedale.

Formation of the new section follows the transfer of a number of North Yorkshire members to the M.A.A.'s North-eastern Counties Division. The aim is to give others who remain in the Yorkshire Division a more convenient opportunity for attendance .at M.A.A. meetings than is afforded by the Scarborough and York sections.


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