GOOD WORK OF CROSSLEY BUS AS MOBILE CANTEEN
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A SHTON UNDER LYNE COR PORATION has been buying buses from Crossley , Motors, Ltd., for the past 13 years and one of its singledeck vehicles, purchased in 1937, was put into war service in the early days of the war. It was converted into a mobile canteen for use in any emergency which demanded community feeding. The interior was stripped aid cupboards and apparatus for serving food and hot drinks installed.
The canteen was operated by members of the VV.V.S., and served the 'public well in the 'bombing of Manchester, Liverpool,, Wallasey and other places.
' The vehicle has noW been reconverted and is in daily service as 'a Passenger vehicle.
The conversion was designed by Mr. C. Irwin Baker, manager of the passenger-transport department of Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation and the work was carried _out in the department's workshops.
CLEARING HOUSES CONFERENCE ELECTS OFFICERS
THE annual general meeting of the North Midland Area of the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses was held last week, when the following officers were elected:— Chairman, Mr. W. Attenborougti, A.M.Inst.T.; vice-chairmen: Messrs. W. Donaldson Wright, M.Inst.T. (Clearing House), R. R. Sellick (Haulier); honorary secretary, Mrs. Webb. Cleating House members: Messrs. W. Hudson, J. A. Kirby,. A.M.I.R.T.E., W. Kirby, 1. II. Pegg and C. Priddy. Haulier members: Messrs. G. Bircher, R. W.'Iteetch, R. Murphy, A.M.I.R.T.E., E. Treadwell and R. H. Wild.
SCREW THREADS CONFERENCE IN OTTAWA
LAST Sunday; 16 Government officials and industrialists left London as a British delegation to the Conference on Unification of Engineering Standards, which opens in Ottawa on September 24. This is the third iu the series Of conferences between Britain, Canada and the U.S.A., which have been held during the past two years under the auspices of the Corn.. trined Production and Resources Board.
The delegation is a strong one and is headed by Mr. Stanley J. Harley, B.Sc., Technical Controller, Machine Tool Control, and it includes Mr. Theodore K. etfileck, M.A., representing the S.M.M.T.
OFFICIAL ADVICE ON CLEANSING • VEHICLES?
'THAT the Ministry of Health should I advise local cleansing authorities on the most efficient vehicles to obtain for their purposes, was suggested by a delegate from Bournemouth at the Annual Conference 'of the Institute of Public Cleansing held in the Central Hall, Westminster, London, en September 6.. Ministerial guidance was necessary, as local authorities, were often misled by" advertising teak," it was said.
Mr. J. D. Henry, cleansing superintendent of Dundee, said that . it should be possible for vehicles to be loaded •without dust being distributed on to the road. The Institute has a tommitteeewhich is considering vehicle design.
Difficulty would be experienced, Mr. Henry went on, with bad roads on new housing estates. Roads were often in bad condition; occasionally they were half-comPleted, and sometimes ruined by the building contractor's own heavy vehicles.
TALK ON POST-WAR TRANSPORT CONTROL .
THE London branch of the Industrial Transport Association is to hold a meeting on September 18, at 6.30 p.m, at . the Institution of Automobile Engineers, 12, Hobart Place, S.W.1, when the speaker will be Mr. Ambrose, director of Lea Velley Highways, whose subject will be " Post-war Transport Control."
OBITUARY
We regret to learn of the death, after a short illness, of MR. P. F. SouNov, head of the vehicle department at the Basingstoke works of John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd. He had seen 31 years' service with the company, and had many friends in the industry.
The death is reported of MR. E. C. COOTE, lamp sales manager eif the British Thomson-llouston Co., Ltd., at the age of Si years. He began his association with the present A.E.I. group of companies when he joined the accounts department of the Edison and Swan Electric Co., in the 1880s, subsequently becoming generale inaha.ger. He joined the B.T.H. concern in 1901 as London supply dept. manager; later taking over the management of the company's lamp sales throughout the country; this position he held Until his death,
ACTIVITIES OF THE P.V.O.
ASSOCIATION •
MO foster local interest in the Pa,seen ger Vehicle Operators Association, the national-council is, from time to time, holding meetings in the provinces. The most recent quarterly one wasbeld at 'Blackpool, and the opportunity was taken of paying a visit to the 'works of Leyland Motors, Ltd., at Leyland. Delegates enjoyed an instructive tour of the works, which are changing over from war to peace-time production. As from January 1 next year, new members will be required to pay an Membership continues to grow, and the Council has approved 325 applications. Any person having an interest in road transport but not owning or . operating vehiCles may become an'associate member at a fee of three`guineas
Good progress has beea made in deyeloping the Car Hire Section, twine bership of which is open to owners of Cars. seating eight or fewer passengers, and Carrying them for hire-cai reward. Proposals to secure stabilization of this section of the industry have been submitted to the M.O.W.T.
Consideration has been given by the council to the question of further action being taken to ensure the full resumption of seasonal and all-the-year express-coach services in 1946.
MANCHESTER SETS UP MOBILE HEALTH SERVICE ArANCHES-TER has converted a al single-deck bus into a mobile diphtheria-immunization van. Equipped with heating for sterilization purposes, special lighting, and providing accommodation for a doctor, health visitor and a record clerk, the vehicle tours the city. and suburbs, the children being immunized on their own doorsteps. A gramophone for entertaining the children and a loud-speaker are also carried. entrance free of one guinea. V.