New Oil Engine for Light Vans
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A PROPRIETARY four-cylindered rt high-speed oil engine is now being developed for vans of 10-15-cwt. payload capacity. It has a capacity of about I+ Titres and operates on a conventional four-stroke principle.
Research by the maker in overseas markets has indicated that there is a good sales potential for such a unit. It is expected that bench and road tests of the engine will be completed in about six months.
BOMBAY BUYING 100 BUSES NEXT YEAR
NO major changes in the three services of the Bombay State Transport undertaking are contemplated for next year. It is proposed, however, to buy 100 new buses, half of which will replace existing vehicles.
Plans for the speedy nationalization of road transport in the Punjab are being completed. The three-year agreement between the Government and private operators, under which the status quo had to be maintained as far at possible; has now expired_ One of the big transport undertakings in the State has approached the Government to be taken over. Many operators are finding it difficult to pay their way and, it is stated, hostility to the idea of nationalization has receded.
KASHMIRI OFFICIAL STUDIES OUR METHODS
A KASIIMIRI official, Mr. Manohar Lal Bakshi, deputy transport controller to the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, and chairman of the Kashmir Tourist Bus Service, has arrived in the United Kingdom for a six-month course in the organization, operation and management of road transport under the Columbo Plan Technical Co-operation Scheme.
Mr. Bakshi, who is now with the Western National Omnibus Co., Ltd., controls 450 vehicles operated by the State Government's transport department.
Kashmir is wholly dependent on road transport and recently decided to expand both .its passenger and goods facilities.. It is this proposed extension that has led to Mr. Bakshi's visit.
PAY CLAIM: WORKERS BAN OVERTIME
ELEVEN London Transport bus garages were affected by decisions banning overtime and rest-day working when The Commercial Motor closed for press. The ban is a protest against the delay in settling the bus workers' claim for higher Pay.
The garages affected were at Victoria, Willesden, Alperton, Southall, Walthamstow, Lea Bridge, Croydon, Catford, Old Kent Road, Chelverton Road and Hemel Hempstead, all of which are understood to be short-staffed.