P.A. Equipment on Aberdeen Buses
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QEVEN single-deck buses used on city and suburban tours by Aberdeen Transport Department have been fitted with 'public address equipment by Philips Electrical, Ltd. A further five sets of equipment are available for installation in double-deckers when these are used on tours.
. Two loudspeakers, one mounted in the bulkhead separating the driver from the saloon and the other in the roof near the back of the bus, are provided in the single-deckers. This arrangement will be duplicated in the double
deckers. • Commentaries are given by the driver by means of a wrist microphone. This weighs only 4 oz. and, it is claimed, does not interfere with his driving duties.
• NON-UNIFORM LIGHTING DEPLORED
D EGRET that local authorities were
not in all cases introducing road lighting which was uniform was expressed in the House of Commons last week by the Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, Mr. Hugh Molson.
"Where one is not able to make any financial contribution, one's advice does not gain very much attention," he told Mr. E. Shinwell. On trunk roads, where the Government contributed to local authorities' expenditure on lighting, conformity with Departmental standards was required.
It was not, however, proposed to initiate any • legislation to eliminate variation in road lighting on roads for which local authorities were solely responsible.
"NO MORE ON .0 LICENCE" rIN the undertaking that the Winterstoke 'Haulage Co., Ltd., builders' merchants and hauliers, would not apply for further vehicles to be operated under C licence, the Western Licensing Authority last week added seven vehicles to their B licence to carry building plant and materials within 25 miles.
For the applicants, it was stated that when materials had to be moved to sites, builders often required small lots to be moved about. This meant that a B-licence vehicle had specifically to be sent.
MANCHESTER APPROVE RESTRICTIONS ON CARS
AT their meeting last week, Manchester City Council approved in principle a scheme for the provision of surface car parks on the fringe of the central area, from which motorists would have to travel by bus into the city centre. The scheme also provides for the installation of 2,000 parking meters in streets in the central area and the building of multi-storey and underground car parks.