CENSUS SHOWS 20 PER CENT. INCREASE IN ROAD TRAFFIC
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OFF1C1AL figures, issued a few days ago, show that there was an increase of 2,306,000 road vehicles passing the 5,536 census points on trunk roads and Class I highways when the Ministry of Transport check was taken in August, 1938, compared with the figures obtained at -the 1935 census; the rise is equivalent to nearly. 20 per cent.
The census was taken during an average day of 16 hours on seven consecutive days, and the number of passenger vehicles recorded was 11,169,000. Goods motor vehicles numbered 2,607,000, an increase of 17.41 per cent., whilst the decrease in horse-drawn vehicles was from 124,000 in 1935 to 86,000 last year.
The total of all vehicles recorded was 13,862,000, contrasted with 11,1,56,000 in the 1935 return In last year's census, the greatest traffic volume was recorded at the Great Western Railway bridge, near Brentford, Middlesex, the average numher of vehicles during a 16-hour day being 23,320.
Descriptive of Scaramell Municipal Products
BROCHURES dealing with certain of its municipal products have lately been issued by Scammell Lorries, Ltd., Watford. One deals with the 500-gallon gully-emptier, another with a 12-cubic-yd. refuse collection, and the third with an 18-cubic-yd. refuse collector ; both the collectors are harrier loaders.
" East Kent" Profit Hopes Affected by the War I N the year ended September 30, 1939, the profit of the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., amounted to £58,214. A dividend at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum on 450,000 ordinary shares takes £36,000, whilst the dividend on the preference shares for the three months ended September 30 last (it has already been paid for the nine months ended June 30,' 1939), absorbs £3,250. After transferring £10,000 to general reserve, £16,407 remains to be carried forward, against £17,193 brought in.
Until the end of August, traffic had been so satisfactory that a substantial increase of profits for the year appeared to be probable, but, with the outbreak of war, an exodus of visitors from the East Kent coast towns occurred and, at the same time, it became necessary to curtail operations to conserve fuel. The result of the year's working is approximately the same as that for the previous 12 months.
The Transport Diary and Handbook AS in previous years, Industrial Transport Publications, Ltd., 58, Green Lane, Thornton Heath, Surrey, is issuing its well-known Transport Diary and Handbook. The price, however, has been raised to 3s., including postage.
The diary is adequately described as a complete transport office for the pocket. It contains tables of mileages and motor-vehicle taxation, lists of Licensing Authorities, tyre pressures, information as to how to calculate railway rates, a useful list of clearing houses and other valuable information, Including 16 pages of coloured maps of the United Kingdom.
An Illuminating Booklet
A CATALOGUE and price list of G.E.C. industrial lighting fittings and accessories has just been made available by the General Electric Co., Ltd., Magnet House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2. Any reader with lighting problems to solve, for garage works or factory, will almost assuredly find in its 80 pages the means for achieving his desired end. Discharge lights, flood lights, inspection lights, garage-pit lights, reflectors, brackets, condensers, and many other types of equipment, all in innumerable forms, are listed. Their variety completely baffles description in a short paragraph. The present need for studying lighting and its influence on the efficient working of operatives, lends the matter additional importance.