New Rail Service for Exporters
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A NEW facility for exporters which
"should materially help to relieve road congestion at the docks" has been started by British Railways at the depot in Curzon Street, Birmingham. The depot serves as a concentration point where goods for export from Birmingham and South Staffordshire may be assembled into direct wagon loads for individual ships at the main ports.
Similar depots in other large manufacturing areas are being considered. For traders sending full wagon loads. the Green Arrow service, by which consignments are specially watched and notified at various control points throughout the journey, will continue to be available.
This service is now offered in all areas for full wagon loads of periihable goods, livestock and household removal traffic dispatched to places in Britain, NEW AUTOMATIC WELDING HEAD
ANEW addition to the range of Argonaut equipment made by British Oxygen Gases, Ltd., Bridgewater House, St. James's, London, S.W.1, is an automatic welding head. It provides full automatic mechanized equipment for the production welding of heavy sections of metal.
Some of the advantages claimed for it include high welding speed, smooth weld bead, even and controlled penetration, and freedom from porosity.
It is designed to handle 600-amp. D.C. continuously and is usable with "hard wires "—stainless steel, copper, bronze and steel—from 0.035 in. to 3/32 in. diameter, as well as aluminiumalloy and magnesium-alloy wires of 3/64 in. to in. diameter.
200,000 COMMERCIAL VEHICLES IN ACCIDENTS
NE ARLY 200,000 commercial vehicles in 11 European countries were involved in accidents in. 1954, according to the Economic Commission for Europe's "Statistics of Road Traffic Accidents in Europe, 1954," The publication shows that 157,479 goods vehicles, and 39,254 coaches, motorbuses and trolley buses were concerned.
The publication also indicates that the peak of accidents occurs in July, August and September, each of those months accounting for more than 10 per cent, of the year's figures. Saturday's average of 16.6 per cent, of thiweek's accidents with all types of vehicle contrasts with 14.5 per cent. for Sunday and 14.5 per cent. for Friday.
PURCHASE REFUSED
HAVING been refused approval by the Government to buy a refuse collector, Dunbartonshire County Council are to take the matter up again with the department concerned and acquaint the Secretary of State for Scotland with the possible consequences if an obsolete existing vehicle cannot be replaced. The sum involved is £2,545.
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