Anxiety Over Loss of Traffic
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SOUTHPORTS municipal transport manager, Mr. Jackson Haggard, is anxious about the decline of traffic. It began last December and Mr. Hoggard attributes it to more plentiful supplies of consumer goods, the greater use of cars and powered cycles, and to the advance of television.
Receipts this year have dropped by about 3 per cent., or by some £8,400 a year. Mr. Haggard, in his annual report, sees little hope of improvement. Although a profit of £18,375 was made last -year, "the prospects for the future are by no means so bright as they were a year ago." he says.
Experimental work last year resulted in the highest fleet mileage per gallon of fuel (10.11) for many years. Successful use was also made of reinforced plastics for corner panels, wing valances and other vulnerable parts. The resilience of the material reduced the severity of damage and a large saving in repair costs is expected.
NEW HIGH-FRICTION FACING A NEW high-friction motilded brake r-k facing which is claimed to he as hard wearing as the medium-friction types, has been produced by the Cape Asbestos Co., Ltd., 114 Park Street, London, W.1. Other features are stated to be extreme high-temperature frictional stability and fade resistance.
This latest addition to the Capasco range of moulded facings will be known as Capasco MF7 and will be exhibited • for the first time at the Commercial Motor Show next month.
CEYLON WANTS "HEAVIES" T ENDERS are invited by the Tender 1Board, Ministry of Lands and Land Development, Ceylon, for the supply of 10 oil-engined four-wheeled heavyduty lorries, six oil-engined heavy-duty 1,000-gallon water tankers suitable for off-the-road use, and two 25-ton semitrailers for carrying machinery, with oil-engined tractors.
Closing date for the receipt of tenders is September 28. Copies of forms are obtainable from either the chief engineer, Mechanical Branch, Irrigation Department, Ratmalana, Ceylon, or the Office of the High Commissioner for Ceylon, 13 Hyde Park Gardens,'London, W.2.
SAFER QUEUE BARRIERS?
BUS operatorswill be approached on the question of safer queue barriers by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, if a suggestion of the North Eastern Accident Prevention Federation is taken up.
Barriers should be constructed in such a way as to discourage children from climbing through them, say the Federation. A suggestion that they should be covered with wire mesh -was rejected as impracticable.
H.P. BUSINESS ACQUIRED THE hire-purchase business of S. and A. Services, Ltd., has been taken over by Stewart and Ardern, Ltd., London distributors of Morris-Commercial. The office is now at Morris House, The Vale, London, W.3.
MAY REGISTRATIONS XCLUDING cars and motorcycles. 14.693 new vehicles were registered in May. Registrations by classes are analysed in the table below.