Delivery Delays Strain Liverpool Transport
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nELAYS in the delivery of Atlantean
buses, at least six months behind schedule, have made it necessary to overhaul many older buses—which otherwise would have been disposed of—for peakhour operation. This comment is made in the annual report of Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport, which remarks on the added strain this has put on the already overtaxed engineers' division.
"The outlook of increasing expenses, falling revenue, and reduction of passengers is familiar to the majority of municipal passenger transport undertakings, and it would seem there is little chance of this pattern being altered unless transport as a whole is considered on a much wider basis."
Delivery of 120 Atlanteans against a new contract is expected to start in September. These vehicles, with a wheelbase extended by 6 in. and an increased length of 94 in. in the lower saloon, will have glider-type entrance doors.
The fuel oil consumption rate of the fleet deteriorated from 8-79 m.p.g. in 1963-4 to 8-64 m.p.g. in 1964-5, and the apparent worsening of the fuel oil m.p.g. is the result of the continued introduction of the Atlantean vehicles with their greater load-carrying capacity. The figure for m.p.g. is influenced by the larger seating capacity and the greater weight of the Atlantean vehicles. The consumption of engine lubricating (topping oil) was 752 m.p.g. for the year under review.
Mr. A. P. de Boer has been elected an additional vice-chairman of the British Road Federation. Mr. de Boer is a managing director of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd.
The Minister of Transport has appointed Mr. R. M. Robbins, at present chief commercial and public relations officer, to be a full-time member of the London Transport Board. The appointment will take effect from October 1. Mr, Robbins has held his present post since 1960. He joined the London Passenger Transport Board in 1939 and was secretary of the London Transport Executive from 1950 to 1960. He is 49.
Mr. J. J. Henson, 65, is -to retire on August 31 after 20 years as clerk to the East Midland Traffic Commissioners and Licensing Authority. Mr. Henson was also chief assistant to the Regional Transport Commissioner. He will be succeeded by Mr. J. H. Marshall, at present chief administration officer in the divisional road engineer's office in Nottingham.
Mr. A. B. Smith, director and general manager of the Rover Car Co. Ltd., has been appointed to the board of Alvis Ltd. This follows the appointment of Mr. J. J. Parkes (chairman and managing director of Alvis) to the Rover board.
Mr. John Peace, Perth branch manager of Pickfords Ltd., has been appointed to a similar post at Dunfermline, Mr. Peace joined Pickfords in 1954 at Inverness and moved to Perth in 1959.
Mr. J. A. Glass, mechanical factory manager of North British Rubber Co. Ltd. since 1962, has been appointed to the new post of director of personnel. Mr. Glass joined North British Rubber as a trainee in April, 1958. The new mechanical factory manager is Mr. A. Kay, who joined North British Rubber as a draughtsman in 1949.
Mr. A. Ryan, former public relations officer of the Ulster Transport Authority, who recently retired after 44 years' service, has been appointed to a similar post with the Northern Ireland Ministry of Development, Mr. K. T, Harrison has been appointed head of development of the Transport Holding Company, Mr. Harrison was previously in the service of the Ministry of Transport, and since 1956 has been assistant secretary in the highways, railways and national industries group. Before joining the Ministry he was a traffic apprentice with LNER from 1936 to 1939 and on the staff of the director of movements, War Office. from 1939 to 1946. Mr. Thomas Mayhead has been appointed assistant general service manager of Matbro Ltd. This is a new post which has been created to strengthen the company's spare parts and service organization.
Mr. I L. Wilson has been appointed area sales representative for the fork-lift truck division of Mabro Ltd., Horley, Surrey. Mr. Wilson will cover South West England and South Wales and will operate from Chepstow.
Mr. G. M. Davidson has been appointed Cox and Danks (MI Group) branch manager at Sheffield. Mr. Davidson was previously at the company's Newcastle branch. He succeeds Mr. N. Jackson, who has been transferred to head office.
The Jenolite group of companies announces that by mutual agreement, Mr. F. S. Bricknell, technical and export manager, has severed his connections with the group.
Mr. A. W. Veness, a director of Conveyancer Plant Hire Ltd„ has been appointed general sales manager of Conveyancer Fork Trucks Ltd. He will cover home and export sales, service and publicity and also commercial sales of automatic doors and mining equipment produced by Electro-Hydraulics Ltd., of which Conveyancer is a subsidiary. Mr. J. D. Ingledow, previously London manager of Conveyancer Fork Trucks Ltd., has been appointed home sales manager.
Mr. E. F. Miller, manager of North West region, Petrofina (Gt. Britain) Ltd., has retired—after spending 43 years in the oil industry. He is succeeded by Mr. V. J. Moodie, who has been with the company for 14 years, and was formerly sales manager, North East region, at Leeds. This latter appointment has now been taken by Mr. I. McIntosh, who transfers from the Scottish region.