Customers Delay Hauliers' Lorries
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uAULIERS' schedules were upset by
customers failing to accept deliveries promptly on the arrival of vehicles, Mr. F. C. Jackson, a director of Macclesfield Transport, Ltd., said at the company's annual dinner last week. Some hauliers suffered delays as long as a day, which caused disappointment to customers due to be called upon afterwards.
Mr. C. R. Lovatt, chairman, said that the transition from State ownership hkd been in the nature of an eruption and some curious things had fallen on hauliers. Some ex-British Road Services vehicles were nothing more than scrap, and operators who wanted to ensure reliable service had been involved in great expense in renewing them.
Members of the group had reason to be well satisfied with the activities of the past trading period. From January 1, over 40 A-licence vehicles, in addition to others, could be offered.
Mr. F. G. Bannister, secretary of Slater, Harrison and Co. (Bollington), Ltd., stressed that manufacturers depended upon hauliers for help in maintaining the goodwill of customers. If hauliers' work helped to gain repeat orders for manufacturers, it meant repeat orders for the hauliers.
Since Macclesfield Cleansing Department had relied upon local operators for the transport of substantial weekly loads of waste paper to the mills, the work had been performed with unfailing regularity, stated Mr. W. Turner, chief sanitary inspector.
NEW INCREASE AT SHEFFIELD? A LTHOUGH fares went up in 1-3. Sheffield only a month ago, the transport committee wish to make further revisions. All 4d. tickets would rise by Id., but from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Mondays-Fridays there would be special cheap rates for the benefit of shoppers.
Such a modification would yield an extra £150,000 a year and cover the cost of the new wages award. This sum will also offset an accumulated deficiency of £115,000 for the next two years.
Mokuli Delivery Tricycle' Available in Britain
THE Messerschmitt Mokuli delivery tricycle, powered by a Fichte! and Sachs 48 c.c. engine, is now available from the Beulah Hill Engineering Co., Ltd., 411 Beulah Hill, London, S.E.19. Carrying capacity is 2 cwt., there being in front of the handlebars a tubular frame, with a flat floor, in which goods may be placed.
Underneath the carrier is a sprung axle with two wheels which are steered in Ackerman fashion. The price will be £109, plus £9 purchase tax. A fuelconsumption rate of 200 m.p.g. is claimed.
Trolleybuses Raise Revenue
TAKINGS on some routes have increased by nearly 50 per cent. since Brisbane, Australia, introduced trolleybuses on services formerly operated by trams and motorbuses. The chairman of the transport committee has stated that in the last week that motorbuses ran on the Carina and Seven Hills routes, the takings were £A1,046. Revenue in the second week of trolleybus operation was £A1,506.
The sum of £A1,046 equals £837 sterling and £A1,506, £1,130 sterling.
Brisbane has, at present, 30 Sunbeam single-deck troffeybuses, each of which can carry up to 78 people. Bodies are of local manufacture.