PNEUMATIC TYRE RESTRICTIONS ON FARM EQUIPMENT
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TFIR best methods of using the small quantity of new rubber tyres that can be provided for farmers have been examined by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in conjunction with the Ministry of Supply. It has been agreed that the replacement demand to keep existing tractors and vehicles running has a stronger claim than that for new equipment, but that the quantity needed will be so large that there will be great difficulty in meeting it. It is, therefore, impossible to permit further additions to the number of pneumatic-tyred tractors, farm implements or vehicles. New tyres will no longer be provided for the following purposes:—
Original equipment for new tractors; conversion sets for those already on steel wheels; original equipment for agricultural implements and fur all forms of farm transport other than lorries and vans, In future new agricultural machines, trailers and cars' must be equipped with solid wheels.
HELPING COMPANIES TO SAVE PAPER
WITH the object of saving paper, an W Order in Council has been made amending the Defence (Companies) Regulations, 1940, under S.R. and 0., 1942, No. 803, available at H.M.S.O., Kingsway, eondon, W.C.2, or through any bookseller, and the Board of Trade desires to draw the attention of company directors to its object and provisions.
Briefly, it will relieve public companies from the obligation to inclUde iu their annual returns, commencing with that due this year, the information required by the Companies Act as to present and past members of the company and the stocks and shares held or transferred by them. The Order does not refer to the first annual return of any company or to any annual return of a private company.
It also provides for the same protection to companies destroying cancelled share and stock certificates as was given by Regulation 7 of the Defence (Companies) Regulations (S.R. and 0. 1941, No. 1778) ie the case of share or stock-transfer deeds. Again, it widens the application of Regulation 7 by extending it to companies and transfer documents not previously included.
PERSONAL PARS ALDERMAN T. H. ADAMS, chairman of Manchester Corporation Transport Committee, has been elected a member of the executive corfimittee of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association.
MR. S. HATTAN, ttansport manager of Needier's, Ltd., of ,111111, has been elected an associate member of the Institute of Transport, as has MR. F. W. SHARMAN, acting general manager of the transport department of Gt. Yarmouth Corporation.
COUNCILLOR D. S. BROWN, J.P., chairman of the transport committee of Glasgow • Corporation, has been elected president of the Scottish Road Passenger Transport Association for 1942-3, whilst MR. RosEar
McLEon, transport manager of Edinburgh Corporation, has been elected vice-president. Councillor Brown was also re-elected as chairman of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association " A " (Scotland) Area.
FUEL SAVING ON COAL DELIVERIES IN YORKSHIRE
AN average reduction of about 20 per cent, in the amount of petrol and fuel oil used for the transport of coal by 'merchants in the north-eastern region has been effected since the introduction, a few weeks ago, of the region's new rationing system in respect of vehicles delivering coal from merchants' depots. Seasonal influences on household demand may have helped, but the saving achieved in such a short space of time has certainly exceeded anticipations.
As we have previously reported, the system lays down a new rationing principle, in that the ration is governed by the tonnage of coal delivered. The petrol allowance is one-third of a gallon per ton for broken loads, as in the case of a load of bagged household coal which is distributed amongst a number of customers, and a quarter of a gallon per ton for unbroken loads. The fueloil allowance is plotted in the same proportion.
Further savings in motor fuel used for this traffic may be expected from more exchanges of. customers, which merchants in the region have begun, with the object of reducing mileage, by making their areas of distribution more compact. When this re-registration of customers is complete it may be found possible to reduce the rationing basis in some districts which particularly lend themselves to transport economies by such exchanges.
The new rationing formula was devised by Mr. Harry Wood, of Huddersfield, chairman of the Regional Coal Transport Advisory Committee, who is also chairman of the Leeds Area Administrative Committee, Hauliers' National Traffic Pool.