Giant B.P. Tanker for Desert Airfields
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A TANKER of 5,750-gallon capacity.
to be used on desert airfields by Air BE'.. the aviation service of the British Petroleum Co., Ltd., has been completed by Saro (Anglesey), Ltd. The tank is carried on a semi-trailer, the motive power being provided by a Scammell four-wheel drive Mountaineer oil-field tractor. The outfit is fitted with lights for warning aircraft of its presence wh,en used at night.
The semi-trailer chassis incorporates two-axle, twin-wheeled running gear together with turntable and landing equipment, by R. A. Dyson and Co.. Ltd. The tractor, which has a wheelbase of 17 ft., is equipped with a Leyland 0680'
U.S. PRODUCTION UP rOMMERCTAL vehicle production in the United States during the first six months of 1960 totalled 550,891 units, an increase of 12 per cent, over the corresponding period last year. The General Motors Corp. were again the largest manufacturers, with 301,966 units produced, against 263,967 during the •1959 period.
Among the " big four producers, only the Chrysler Corp. showed diminished output. Dodge production fell slightly from 43,274 units in the first six months of 1959 to 41,871 this year. oil engine and air braking. Michelin Metallic tyres are employed for both . , tractor and semi-trailer, The tank, which will convey kerosene or aviation petrol, is of frameless design • "fabricated from aluminium alloy and • welded up by the Argonate consumable' electrode process... It cOmprises three equal-sized compartments, each with dished and flanged inds, together with two baffles, which are also dished and flanged. Aluminium runners and, mounting plates are. welded to the exterior to rate with the rear bogie, turntable and landing gear. • , Avery Hardoll automatic bottomloading equipment is fitted and piped to the side of the vehicle to terminate in self-sealing quick-release couplings. Manhole covers are centrally mounted on the top of each compartment. Lead sampling lines, which terminate in a convenient group location near the couplings, come from the lowest point in each section.
Four 15-ft. hoses are carried in aluminium hose tubes fitted on each side. There is a full-length walkway along the top of the tank which is reached by an aluminium ladder at the forward end. Unladen weight of the outfit is 15 tons 4 cwt.
U.T.A. Men Fear Private Enterprise
PRESSURE by some M.P.s for the return of the Ulster Transport Authority's road services to private enterprise was causing anxiety to hundreds of employees, said Mr. S.. L. McCormick, Northern Ireland executive member of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association, at Belfast, last week, when he was speaking to U.T.A. staff on the G,Pillebaud Report.
It was suggested, he said, that the present public transport charges were retarding industrial development. "But there is no real evidence for this claim. Indeed, independent opinion of economists discounted it as a major factor in the general and complex problem of attracting industry to the Province."
Many private operators, particularly outside Belfast, were able to cost well within the _U.T.A, scales, he said, but there was considerable evidence that the rates of pay and conditions of their drivers were considerably below the U.T.A. level.
The general level of wages and salaries in the U.T.A. were, with "a few exceptions, comparable with those in Britain. Could the employees of the U.T.A. be blamed if they saw behind these moves a threat•
to their own rates of pay, he asked.