"Use Ships for Abnormal Loads"
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GREATER use of coastal shipping for abnormal loads is highly desirable to relieve the roads, says the annual report of the Liverpool Steam Ship Owners' Association. The chief obstacle which prevents coastal shipping from quoting attractive rates is the high cost of cranage at various ports, it is stated.
Commenting on the impracticability of giving long notice of the movement of abnormal loads, the Association say: " A ship loading or discharging cannot guarantee much in advance that a piece of cargo, particularly when of an abnormal kind, can be loaded or will be discharged on a given day and at an approximate time. There are in the shipping trade too many fortuitous circumstances that can intervene to falsify anticipation made two or three weeks in advance."
CEMENT VEHICLE PLANS QUIPMENT, patents and designs of Klinge r, A.G., Wiesbaden, Germany, are to be exploited in this country and certain export markets by a new company, Dewco and Klinger (Sales), Ltd., 205 Hope Street, Glasgow.
Klinger equipment is for the bulk handling of cement, unloading being by air. Vehicles will be built with one, two or three 7-ton containers. The Dewco concern of Bellshill are makers of tankers. Compressors and other equipment will at first be imported from Germany but will later be made in Scotland.
M.P.T.A. ESSAY COMPETITION
DETAILS are available from the Municipal Passenger Transport Association, Aldwych House, Aldwych, London, W.C.2, of the 1956 essay competition open to the staffs of members and of the London Transport Executive.
Administrative and supervisory staffs are invited to Write about improving operating efficiency, recruitment or .segregating local from long-distance traffic, and operating staffs about vehicle design, staggering of hours or courtcsy. Prizes of £15 15s., £10 1Qs. and £7 7s. are offered.
A.A. RADIO SERVICE FOR SUSSEX
RADIO control of their breakdown service in Sussex has been inaugurated by the Automobile Association. At the Brighton headquarters, a 24-hour staff is in constant contact with radio patrols by day and breakdown vehicles by night and at week-ends, in an area of some 1,350 sq. miles.
The transmitter is on the South Downs and is the 18th to be installed, the network now covering about 32,000 sq. miles, stretching from the Firths of Clyde and Forth to the south coast.
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Bid to Shorten Journey Time
A FTER a lengthy hearing, Mr. J. A. T.
Hanlon, chairman of the Northern Licensing A uthorit y, last week adjourned a case in which the Tees-side Railless Traction Board applied for permission to run an hourly service between Stockton and Saltbum, via Wilton.
It was stated that the journey took 82 minutes and 78 minutes by the existing services provided•by United Automobile Services, Ltd. The proposed service, which would cater mainly for visitors to the seaside, would take 55 minutes.
OBITUARY
WE regret to record the deaths of SIR TV MONTAGUE HOCHMAN and MR. WALTER HIRST.
Sir Montague was a former director and chairman of W. T. Henley's Telegraph Works Co., Ltd., and Henley's Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd. He was 79 years of age.
Mr. Hirst was a founder-director of Ripponden and District Motors, Ltd, He was 82.
FIGHTING PETROL FIRES INTENDED for petrol fires and those L involving paints and spirits, a new dry-chemical fire-extinguisher has been marketed by the Pyrene Co., Ltd., 9 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.1. It can also be used safely to fight fires In electrical equipment. A nozzle pit). jects the contents in a fan-shaped jet up to about 8 ft. A 25-1b. and a 150-lb. model are available.
Future of Distribution Depends on Transport
TRANSPORT efficiency would L probably be the main factor in deciding whether the Co-operative movement or what he termed "the combines" would serve the people of Britain in the future, said Mr. A. Prentice when he addressed the Scottish Co-operative Transport Association in Glasgow.
He suggested that the British Movement should. hold a conference to discuss collective transport operational problems.
DEFENDANT ACCUSES B.R. WHEN a driver was prosecuted at VV Rochdale County Magistrates' Court, last week, for infringing the law on driving hours, he said he had previously been employed by British Railways, with whom, he alleged, it was a recognized practice to allow a slight extension of the 5i-hour maximum driving period when driving to a café or lodgings.
Joseph Woore, Wardle, near Rochdale, was fined a total of £8, and his employers, E. Gordon and Co., Ramsden Road, Wardle, were fined £8.
REFS JEFFREYS GRANTS
EACH worth £500, two Rees Jeffreys studentships at the London School of Economics for 1956-57 are offered for transport administrators or those concerned with the production of transport equipment. Applications must be made to the school, at Houghton Street, Aldw,ych, Lando n, W.C.2, by September 1.