"No L.T.E. Services Outside London"
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THE Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association is to submit to the Government an amendment to the Transport Bill to deprive the London Transport Executive of the power to operate road services outside the London Passenger Transport Area, even under road service licences.
The Association states that it would seem from the Bill that the L.T.E. could run such services, whereas it could not do so before the 1947 Act.
• It is suggested that the amendment might take the form of depriving the British Transport Commission, as such, of the power to run services outside the area, bearing in mind that at present the B.T.C. operates practically no such services.
"Although the Bill would give power to the Minister to direct the B.T.C. to dispose of its controlling interest in passenger road transport undertakings, the Association's policy has been, and still is, that there should be provision in the Bill for_ making it obligatory for the B.T.C. to relinquish such con trol. Accordingly, the Association will submit that suitable amendments should be included which would have this effect," states the P.V.O.A.
BIG INCREASE IN PERKINS OUTPUT
BETWEEN 1946 and 1951, F. Perkins, Ltd., Peterborough, has increased output, measured in brake horse-power from 229,000 b.h.p. to 2.125,000 b.h.p. These figures are taken from a report on the internal combustion engine industry issued by the Anglo-American Council on Productivity.
The engines concerned are from 50-70 b.h.p.. a high perecentage of the units, says the report, being for use in agricultural and other tractors.
Dealing with the schemes adopted to speed up production, it mentions that the company is installing new methods of havdling, the basis of which is the use of fork-lift trucks and pallets. tractors and trailers, and overhead conveyors, SAFETY WEEK "ENCOURAGING"
ALTHOUGA there were 199 fewer people killed during the first five days of the National Road Safely Week. which ended last Saturday, there were eight more deaths than in the corresponding period last year. The result of the safety week has been described by Mr. Gurney Braithwaite, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, as encouragidg.
BOMBAY WANTS 100 CHASSIS
TENDERS have been invited by the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking, Electric House Fort, Bombay, for the supply of 50 doubledecker and 50 single-decker chassis, fitted with vertically mounted engines. The latest date for the receipt of tenders ii September 9. Further details can be obtained from the Board of Trade.