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GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF PRODUCER GAS
AN important point about the latest type of Government emergency producer is that it is designed to run solely on anthracite.
The first batch of these appliances, which will be mounted on trailers, will he used solely in connection with passenger service vehicles, and arrangements have already been made by the Ministry with representatives of the associations concerned to set up a consultative body. Later on, after results on the p.s.v, side have been collated, associations representing goods haulage will also probably be asked to form a similar body. It is intended also to appoint a Director to control this side of the Ministry's activities.
Nothing definite can yet bd given officially as to by whom the plants will be constructed, nor as to the prices of the various sizes. Fuel will probably be standardized, and controlled as regards price.
The Shearman Committee, which is advising the Government, held a meeting on May 6, at which it was decided to set up an informal body of .engineers, with four or five members, to advise on the manufacturing problems and design.
There is no intention at Present to enforce the use of producer gas as a fuel for oil engines, which already, by their inherent economy, greatly reduce demands on shipping, • P.S.V. CONFERENCE ON PRODUCER-GAS SCHEME
-THE following have been appointed 1 to the Joint Conference on the Government Producer Gas Scheme (Public Service Vehicles Omnibus Owners' Association; Messrs. J. S. , Wills and P. G. Stone Clark; Municipal Passenger Transport Association: A. C. Baker and C. R. Tattam; Public Service Transport Association: D. Hays and E. L. Taylor; C.M.U.A.: F. J. Speight; A.R.O.: F. R. Lyon; Scottish C.M.U.A.: R. Beveridge.
rr HERE will be a meeting at the J. Cambridge Guildhall, on May 19, at 2.15 p.m., at which Mr. F. G. Smith, Repairs Adviser, M. of W. T., will give a lecture on the-M. of W. T. policy in so far as it relates to the maintenance
and repair of motor vehicles. The chairman will be Sir Haviland Hiley. LEGAL RESTRICTION ON RETAIL DELIVERIES
AN Order under the Defence Regulations is to be made by the Minister of Food. This will enable him to give statutory force to any local scheme approved by him to secure economy of transport fuel and man-power by means of the rationalization of retail deliveries. The Order is not to be general, but will be applied by direction, as and when required, to any particular locality.
SPARE PARTS KEPT FOR A RAINY DAY THIS is no time to store spare parts 1 Which might well be employed doing valuable work. Those people who have put away parts for a rainy day should realize that such a day is upon us and that road transport is now in the front line. As many vehicles as possible must be kept running, and it is unpatriotic to hold large stocks which may keep vehicles off the roador cause excessive demand upon the manufacturers.
BY instituting the new control for pistons and cylinder liners, the authorities have been able to clear a large number of Certificates of Need.
At the same time, it must be remembered that common pools of reasonable amounts of stock are valuable.