News of the Week 700 NEW VEHICLES AVAILABLE THE Minister
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of War Transport has decided to, release 700 International Harvester vehicles which he .,11as imported from the U.S.A. Applications for licences to acquire these should be made to the Regional Transport Commissioner for the Region in which they are to be used.
About 100 chassis of 6-7-ton lorries add a similar number of 10-ton articulated vehicles are available immediately; also 300 6-7-ton chassis are being equipped with three different types of body—timber drop-sided, fixed steel-sided, and flat platform, whilst 200 of the articulated vehicles are having droh-sided or flat-platform bodies mounted.
The chassis prices are £710 for the lorry type and £1,275 for the articulated. The cost of the bodies will be additional and will range from £80 to £100 each Full particulars of these chassis may be obtained from the International Harvester Company of Great Britain, Ltd., 259 City Road, London, E.C.I.
TRANSPORT'S IDEAS FOR POSTWAR PLANNING THE Post-war Planning Committee set up by Associated Road Operators has already held, a number of meetings, and its membeis are agreed in feeling that road transport ought to be given major consideration whenever plans for the futur are discussed. Members of the Association and others are asked to formulate their ideas under certain main headings given below, and to send them in to the secretary of the Committee at the A.R.O. headquarters, 120, Pall Mall, London, SW.!:— (a) Road planning, construction and maintenance; (b) the future of the transport industries of the country and their relations one to another—(1) public forms of transport, (2) C licensees; (c) amendments to legislation restricting the growth of transport and the operation of vehicles: (d) the effect on road transport of post-war planning under . consideration by Government Departments and other bodies—representation of road-transport interests in Parliament and elsewhere; (e) construetion and repair of vehicles—disposal of ex-Service vehicles.
NEW TOLLS FOR CONNEL FERRY BRIDGE
AN important list of new tolls has been drawn up for the use of the Connel Ferry Bridge, Argyllshire. The Scottish Commercial Motor Users Association have been informed that the L.M.S. Railway has been authorized to make further new levies as follow:— Horses in road vehicles, ls. each; bulls in road vehicles, Is. each; cows in road vehicles, 9d. each; sheep and pigs in road vehicles, 6d. each; buses br coaches, 10s. each; funeral hearses, 7s. 6d. each; motor tractors, 6s. each; trailers attached to goods vehicles or tractors, 6s. each, plus 6d.. per ton of merchandise carried.
For goods not specified in the schedule as amended the company has been authorized to make such reasonable charges as it thinks fit.
These tolls apply generally to new types of traffic and are in addition to the new tolls announced by Lord Leathers, Minister of War Transport, in reply to Major MacCallum, M.P. for Argyllshire, in the House of Commons on March 13.
POWER STEERING GEAR IN PRODUCTION
FOLLOWING the letter from Mr John Armstrong, published in our issue dated April 3, we have received from Feeny and Johnson. Ltd., 134136, Ealing Road, Wembley, Middlesex, information to the effect that this company has for a long period been manufacturing power steering gear for heavy vehicles, both of the vacuum and pressure-operated types.
LIAISON OFFICERS FOR REPAIRS APPOINTED
THE following have been appointed Regional Advisers (unpaid), to act as a liaison between Regional Transport Commissioners and the raptor repair industry, the main duty being to keep the R.T.C. informed about the trade's view on maintenance of road transport— Aberdeen. W. P. Broomfield, Town and Country Motor Garage, Ltd., 19, Justice 511::. Lane. Cardiff: S. J. Williams, Romilly Motor Co., Ltd., Romilly Crescent. .Eastbourne: S. M. Caffyn, Sallrons Rooms, Meads Road. Edinburgh: Jos. Wilkinson, 2, Hope Crescent. Liverpool: R. G. Preston, J. Blake and Co.. Ltd., Bold Street. Gloucester: W. H. Hartwe'l, St.. Aidate Garage, 103, Northgate Street. Johnstone: W. Gordon Young, Young's BUS Service, Mary Street. Huntington (Yorks): E. J. Ryde, 'Sundorne." Mill Milt Llandudno: Frank E. Wilkes, The Red Garages. London: H. L. Jessup, Jessups, Ltd., 125; High Street, Stratford, E.15. Newcastle-on-Tyne: Stanley Murray, director of Murray ,and Charleton, Ltd., College_ Avenue.Newmarket: E. A. Dunbarn. High "Street. Nottingham: J. R. Sylvester, Bennetts (Nottingham), Ltd., 2, Shakespeare Street. Reading: H. L. Dearlove, Great Western Motors, Station Road,
Mr. F. G. Smith is Repairs Adviser to the Ministry of War Transport, and has asked for the co-operation of commercial-vehicle organizations to assist with reports of any delays and difficulties in crankshaft regrinding, cylinder repairs, and other similar operations of a specialist' nature.
MINISTRY ERECTS INLAND • SORTING DEPOT
I N one of the outlying areas of Liver
pool the Ministry of War Transport has erected an inland sorting depot, to which goods may be removed from the Liverpool docks and at which the .necessary quay and other operations may be carried out.
The depot is being operated by the Mersey Docks and IIarbour Board. Powers have been conferred on the Port Emergency Committee whereby it may, if it considers it desirable, in order to facilitate the flow of traffic or to minimize the risks of damage by fire or enemy action or in-any case of emergency, issue directions to the Board to remove, or cause to be removed, any goods from the docks to the depot. Rates have been fixed for traffic which is taken by road to the depot,