Morris-Commercial Detail Changes
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MINOR bodywork alterations have been effected on two MorrisCommercial delivery vans, which will be seen at Earls Court this month. The vehicles are the J-type 10-cwt. van and the L.D.1 1-tonner. A modification to the 1-tonner now enables two standard bakers' trays to be housed in the body, side by side.
The J van has a more comfortable driver's seat, with a higher back rest and deep cushion. The seat position has been altered slightly, and this is claimed to make for easier entry and exit.
A larger and much plainer engine cowl, in two sections, is now fitted. The top lid is quickly detachable and exposes the complete engine area, and the lower panelling has quick-fasteners for easy removal. The cowl extends to the near-side wheel-arch on right-handdrive models.
A re-styled front end has been designed for the L.D.1 van. This has a more rounded appearance and a bolder grille treatment. There are two grilles, and one is to be fitted when the vehicle is sold as a Morris-Commercial and the other when sold as an Austin. In all other respects the two vehicles will be identical.
REJECTED YORKS-TORQUAY SERVICE: APPEALS PENDING
FOUR Yorkshire coach operators who were recently refused permission by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority to operate a joint express service from Halifax to Torquay and Paignton are to appeal.
They are Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., Leeds; Hanson's Buses, Ltd., Huddersfield; 0. and C. Holdsworth, Ltd., Halifax; and Messrs. J. W. Kitchin and Sons, Pudsey. Wallace Arnold alone are stated to have received more than 300 applications from people wanting to use the proposed service.
The application was opposed by British Railways, Yorkshire Pool Services, Yelloway Motor Services, Ltd., and flebble Motor Services, Ltd.
An appeal was foreshadowed in The Commercial Moto,: last week.
"WHEEL" PLAN PUT TO INQUIRY
nRAL evidenceon the proposed
wheel" plan for London Transport buses was given recently to the committee of inquiry into the undertaking by representatives of the Greater London Area Council of the National Chamber of Trade, The author of the plan, Mr. S. J. Bull, was one of the representatives.
Among the suggestions submitted to the committee by Wanstead and Woodford, Leyton and Chigwell councils is that the early-morning ticket system should be extended and that local councils be directly represented on the London Transport Executive.