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MAJOR-GENERAL J. S. CRAWFORD, C.B., C.B.E., M.I.Mech.E., a director of Guy Motors, Ltd., has been appointed Honorary Colonel of 44 (H.C.) Inf. Div. R.E.M.E. (T.A.).
MR. A. E. WEST has been appointed office manager of the trade depot of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Gt. Britain), Ltd., reopened at 141-145, Mile End Road, London, E.1.
MAJOR KENNETH G ORDON ,
M .C., M.A., has been awarded the Melchett Medal for 1947 by the Institute of Fuel. The subject was " Hydrogenation in the Fuel and Chemical Industries." This lecture will be given by him at 2.30 p.m. on October 16 at Gas Industry House, 1, Grosvenor Place, London, S.W.1.
MR. A. L. S. Coi,E, of Simms Motor Units, Ltd., left England last January for a tour of the South American Continent. After a most successful trip, during which he made arrangements for servicing Simms equipment throughout that area and secured a large amount of business for Britain, he was taken ill in Buenos Aires in July, and underwent a serious operation. He has made 'a good recovery and was due back in England yesterday. MR. F. R. G ERARD, works manager and director of Parrs (Leicester), Ltd., is a keen participant in motor sporting events, driving an E.R.A., with which he has had numerous successes, In additon, he has made fastest class times in well-known hill-climbs. His team manager is MR. FRANK WOOLLEY, M.I.R.T.E., sales manager of the company, who was one of ,the earliest and most enthusiastic members of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers.
MR. E. P. HARDY has been appointed progress and planning engineer in the department of the chief mechanical engineer (railways), , L.P.T.B. Mr. Hardy, who is 63 years of age, was educated at King Edward VI School, Stratford-on-Avon, and was trained in electrical engineering and workshop practice at King's College, London. 'Entering the service of the London United Tramway Co. in 1908, he was appointed assistant mechanical engineer in 1913, and continued as such until 1917, when he was transferred to the London Electric Railway with the post of assistant for rolling stock to the mechanical engineer. In July, 1928, he was appointed progress engineer at Acton works, which post he has held until his present appointment.
MR. G, CURI IS, M.I.R.T.E., was recently appointed maintenance and transport manager of the Borough of Wembley. This is believed to be the first appointment of its kind, for, as a rule, transport officers, apart from those concerned with municipal bus undertakings, are responsible to the borough engineer or some other senior officer. Mr. Curtis, however, becomes a chief officer, responsible direct to the Council. It is his task to create a department to operate transport and all else of a mechanical nature. He describes it as covering not only everything on wheels, but all appropriate activities in connection with public buildings, swimming baths, health centres, clinics—in fact. from the Borough's modern mechanical refuse plant to the hinges of the office door, in respect of operation, costing, maintenance, accountancy, and policy. He was formerly at Lewisham, and there, prior to the war, introduced centralized transport.
FOUR-MILLIONTH AC-SPHINX FUEL PUMP
A NOTABLE achievement by Messrs
AC-Sphinx Spark Plug Co., Dunstable, Beds, has been the production of 4,000,000 petrol pumps. Recently, to mark the manufacture of the four millionth pump, this component was presented to the general manager, Mr. D. Bennion Browne, at the end of the assembly line by Mr. H. E. Raithby, factory manager. Mr. C. N. Faulconbridge, director of equipment sales, was also present.
The majority of road vehicles is equipped with the AC fuel-supply system. It was the down-draught carburetter which forced the use of a pressure pump to avoid starvation on steep gradients. The AC fuel pump is generally driven by an eccentric from the engine camshaft, and embodies a hand primer that can be adapted to all types.
NOTICES FORBIDDING FREE LIFTS NAEMBERS of the National Road Transport Federation, Roadway House, 146, New Bond Street, London, W.1, are advised to make use of the cab and depot notices issued by the Federation in connection with free lifts, unauthorized passengers and carriers' liability.
The cab notices forbidding free rides are supplied in plastic material at 2s. 6d.; depot notices, size 12 ins. by 10 ins., at 10s. 6d., plus 3d. per letter of operator's name, or in thin cardboard on which the operator must write his name, at 6d. each.
ST. LEGER TRAFFIC DIVERSIONS
T" police are anxious that during the Doncaster races to-day, September 12, and to-morrow, September 13, as little inconvenience as possible shall be caused to the travelling public through traffic congestion on the Great North Road, particularly in and near Doncaster borough.
All drivers travelling north and south on the Great North Road are therefore strongly advised to avoid Doncaster between the hours of 10.30 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. • All traffic from the north for Doncaster, including race traffic, and for Bawtry and the south, will, between the hours of 10.30 a.m. and 7.30 p.m., on both days, be diverted at Knottingley Cross Roads (roundabout) and at Hut Green Cross Roads (roundabout) via Snaith, Gyme Corner and Thorne. Through traffic from the south will be diverted at Bawtry, "via Thorne, Gyme Corner and Snaith.
CUMBERLAND WITHDRAWS TAXATION SUMMONSES E"OR some time past Cumberland
County Council has been claiming additional taxation from hauliers in respect of vehicles carrying containers or lift vans, just as if such containers were included in the unladen weights of the vehicles. The council has now informed the R.H.A. that all outstanding summonses have been withdrawn and no further proceedings will be taken unless it be clear that the receptacles or Containers are not constructed to be lifted off the -vehicles with their loads, but form essential parts of them.
LONDON I.T.A.'s EDUCATIONAL LECTURES THE London Branch of the Industrial Transport Association formed an Educational Society in 1945. In this connection, a series of lectures is to be held in the Kent Room at Caxton Hall, Westminster, at 7 p.m. The fee for these lectures is 5s., and details can be obtained from the Honorary Assistant Secretary, London Branch, Room 83, Albion House, 59, New Oxford Street, London, W.C.1.
The following is the programme.— October 7: "Air Freight Services," by L. H. Bateman (B.O.A.C.); November 4: "Transport of Goods by Road," by J. J. Short, A.LT.A.; December 2: "Rail Rates and Charges," Mr. C. N.
Lidguard, Assoc.Inst.T , M.I.T.A. January 8: "Fibre Board Packing" (illustrated), W. G. Anwyl, A.I.T.A.; February 3: "Coastwise Shipping," 0. G. Bayliss, M.Inst.T. (Coast Lines, Ltd.); March 2: " Road Passenger Services," Colonel E. F. Horobin, M.Inst.T., A.I.T.A.
WEIGHING CHARGES BY MERSEY BOARD WEIGHING charges of the Mersey VV Docks and Harbour Board were increased from September 1. The minimum for road vehicles is 6d., and the maximum Is. 6d. All classes of goods are charged at 2d. per ton, except coal, coke, limestone, paving materials, ballast, sand, gravel, rubbish and manure bulk, which are charged at Id. per ton with a minimum of 3d. Duplicate weight tickets for loads are issued at 3d.