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Not Have Agreement Printed ?
'ERRING to the letter from A. Robert Hobbs ruly 23) regarding the agreement with the tipper tors, why does not Mr. Hobbs have his agreement d so that everyone can see and judge for themselves? as present when the agreement was reached and in pinion the main part of this, which Hobbs were int to agree with and only under pressure was the nent made -was that they agreed the Mendip tippers' schedule, known as the " Interim Rates Schedule nciple and that as from July 14, all new business be quoted from the schedule. Therefore, within .t time the majority of haulage done from this quarry be as the rates schedule.
will now sec if Mr. Hobbs is a man of his word iands by the agreement.
Is, Somerset. L. PARSONS.
Director, Albert .1. Parsons and Sons Ltd.
lip Tippers' Schedule disagreement in principle
3RE1' it is necessary to take issue on the letter from Cox, secretary RHA, Western area (July 30) and reiterate there was no concession apart from that ned in the Hobbs Quarries original offer.
ietting out our offer in writing on June 15 to the littee, we stated: 'e would like to make it clear that we will be prepared
to consider the Mendip Tipper Operators Minimum Rates Schedule only if a categorical assurance can be given that this rates schedule will apply to ALL quarry operators in the Mendips. If this assurance cannot be given then we must reserve the right to negotiate our own rates schedule with the tipper operators currently employed at our Fairy Cave Quarry.
This assurance was not forthcoming from the Mendip Tipper Committee until 11 a.m. on July 14, when it was also stated that interim " arrangements had been agreed with other quarries which could also be extended to Hobbs (Quarries) Ltd.
At no stage in our discussions have we disagreed in principle with the Mendip Tipper Operators' Rates Schedule, but for obvious reasons we were not prepared to consider it on any understanding other than it would apply without exception to all quarries.
Flax Bourton, A. ROBERT HOBBS.
Bristol. Managing Director, Hobbs (Quarries) Ltd.
Plenty of AEC Double-deckers for Years
WE were delighted to learn that Mr. Kellett (July 23
issue) should be so interested in the future of AEC. but we can dispel his fears immediately—there will be plenty of AEC double-deckers available to discriminating buyers for many years to come.
The wide facilities of The Leyland Motor Corporation give many economies in engineering, production and
marketing, but it is the group's avowed policy that AEC and Leyland shouldbe strongly competitive with each other. We believe that this is stimulating to both sales organizations and for the ultimate profit of the operator.
I should like to assure Mr. Kellett that the AEC design learn has never been more active and that he may look forward with interest to the new AEC passenger .model programme.
Southall, Middx. RooEar G. BENNVI 1, Sales Director. AEC Ltd.
Large Fuel Tax Increase Would Mean Disaster REFERRING to the letter of Mr. I. M. Clarke (July 30) he seems to think that by increasing the Nei tax by 3d. per gallon, the Chancellor could abolish all road fund licences. However, the British Road Federation gave the figures for the year ended March 31 last as--motor fuel lax, £570m., and licence dutY, £187m. So from this it would seem that the fuel tax would have to go up by at least 9d. or even Is. per gallon.
This would mean paying more than 6s. per gallon for petrol, which might be tolerable for the week-end motorist. but would be a crippling disaster to trade and commerce.
Boroughbridge, York s. C. WILSON.
Degassing a Tank
I WAS interested in the article in your December 4, 1964 I issued headed How Clean is Clean?", particularly as regards the paragraphs on degassing a tank for repair. 1 therefore carried out a trial, using the old method with wet steam and the method stated in the article of heating the shell and blowing cold air through from the bottom. '11 found that the wet stream was far more successful and apparently cheaper. Both tanks had approximately the same reading on the explosimeter at the start.
One must not forget that compressed air costs money— about 3d. per 100 cu. ft. I rather gathered the impression from the trial that hot air instead of cold blown in, would have been better at degassing the tank. I should be interested to know of any readers who have had more success with your method.
Woolwich. S.E.18. C. D. S. BRIDGETT, Workshop Wing, HQ Technical Group, REME.
Livery Consultancy Service
WE were interested to note the reference to the livery
consultancy service by Lewis Berger (Great Britain) Ltd., which was claimed to be the first of its kind in the UK (July 30 issue). However, we would respectfully point out that Joseph Mason and Co. lid., of Derby, have given a similar service for at least five years.
Derby. M. KEELING, Frank Porter Ltd.