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UNPAID transport charges, which amounted to about £1,500, were not included in the statement of earnings presented to Mr. W. F. Quin, Scottish Licensing Authority, at Glasgow last week, when Mr. Nicol Rea, Carnbroe House, Coatbridge, successfully applied for continuation of his 13 licence.
It was explained by Mr. J. Law, for the applicant, that a principal customer had gone into liquidation. Mr. Quin accepted the point, made by Mr. Rea's accountant, that unpaid debts represented money earned but not received, and should therefore not be included in a statement of earnings.
The application sought revised conditions to eliminate chemicals and allow work in connection only with demolition. Granting this, Mr. Quin made reference to the inactivity of the vehicle since December, 1958.
He observed that earlier application and prompt answers to correspondence
from the office of the Licensing Authority would have been in the best interests of the applicant.
GUY EXPAND IN EUROPE
PAA SMALL subsidiary company, Guy Motors (Europe), has been formed in Luxembourg by Guy Motors, Ltd., Wolverhampton, to assemble heavy commercial vehicles and buses.
The parent company has received a repeat order for 25 Wulfrunian doubledeck buses, worth £80,000, from the West Riding Automobile Co., Ltd. They will have disc brakes and air suspension.
An initial order has been received for new 37-ft.-long single-deck buses from Western Australia Government Railways. The vehicles, fitted with disc brakes and air suspension, will operate over distances up to 400 miles from Perth.
ATTACK ON ACCIDENTS
DURING the past 10 years the accident ratio among drivers of the Express Dairy Co., Ltd., has dropped by more than 60 per cent. Last year, when company drivers covered more than 16m. miles, an accident ratio of one per 160,000 miles was recorded. During that period drivers gained 2,127 safety awards.
The company make cash awards to accident-free drivers at the rate of £3 3s. per quarter, plus £5 on attaining a fiveyear medal. They then receive £12 12s., plus El for each succeeding accident-free year.
NO TOP OVERHAULS
D EFERRING to a statement in "Main
tenance As Required' The Best" (The Commercial Motor, June 3), a spokesman of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., points out that no top overhaul of a power unit is carried out between major strip downs unless attention to a known defect is necessary. It was inadvertently stated that top overhauls were performed at intervals of 24,000 miles.
Pakistan Fleets: East and West Pakistan are each to acquire a fleet of 500 new buses.
Heated Cabs: Heaters will be fitted to the cabs of 109 buses operated by Nottingham Transport Department.
New Branch: The British Wagon Co., Ltd., will open a new branch office at 19 Winckley Square, Preston, next Monday.
East Kent Coaches: The East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., have ordered 39 service coach bodies, to be mounted on A.E.C. Reliance chassis, from Park Royal Vehicles, Ltd.
Big Crash-loaders: A number of doubledeck buses of the Ceylon Transport Board is to be converted into crush-loaders. They will carry 100 passengers instead of the usual 64.
Stockton Station: Stockton-on-Tees General purposes Committee have asked officials of the council to prepare a comprehensive scheme for a new bus station, estimated to cost £125,000.
Fluorescent Buses: South Yorkshire Motors, Ltd.' have taken delivery of two Leyland PD3 double-deckers with Roe 63-seat bodywork. The vehicles are 30 ft. long and have transistor-type fluorescent lighting.
Dexion Works: The Dexion group, makers of slotted-angle metal sections, opened a new factory at Hemel Hempstead on Tuesday. The organization's plastics and timber divisions are also accommodated there.
£100,000 Contract : The automobile gearbox division of David Brown Industries, Ltd., has negotiated a £1.00.000 contract for the long-term supply of goods-vehicle gearboxes to a leading British commercial-vehicle builder.
Plastics Tilt Cab: Plastics mouldings are used wholly for the construction of a new tilt cab introduced in America by the Diamond T Motor Car Co. Almost 350 lb. has been saved by the use of the material compared with conventional fabrication. Jet Sales: Jet Petroleum, Ltd.. whose activities were described in last week's issue, are shortly to supply petrol to Birmingham retailers. Coventry Corporation have agreed to buy 500,000 gallons of diesel oil and a smaller quantity of petrol a year from the company.
Two Yorkshires: The Karrier-Yorkshire gully-emptier included in last week's preview of vehicles exhibited at the Institute of Public Cleansing conference was demonstrated by the Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Co., Leeds, 10. and not the Yorkshire Engineering and Welding Co.. Ltd.. as stated.
Versatile Coupling 'Adapter
AN adapter unit, designed by Rippon Bros., Woodend Avenue, •Speke, Liverpool, 19, will convert a fifth-wheelequipped semi-trailer to operate with an automatic-coupling tractor or vice versa. The device is simple, consisting of an S.A.E./S.M.M.T. fifth-wheel turntable mounted above, and attached to, a crossbeam and rollers similar to those incorporated in an automatic-coupling fore-carriage.
The stand provided to hold the adapter, when not in use, permits an automatic-coupling tractor to back under the device and engage the rollers. The turntable lock is then released and the tractor can drive away taking the adapter with it to pick up fifth-wheel-type semitrailers.
If the semi-trailer is being converted, the tractor couples up to it: the automaticcoupling release gear is operated and it drives away leaving the adapter in place on the semi-trailer.
WARNING OVER UNLICENSED OPERATION
ASTERN warning in respect of STERN. operation was given to
the holder of a short-term B licence by Mr. W. F. Quin, Scottish Licensing Authority, at Glasgow last week. It was stated that Mr. Angus Gemmell, 18 Holrns Avenue, Dreghorn, whose licence expired on March 10, was still operating the vehicle on March 31.
Mr. Gemmell was applying for a contract-A licence to operate an articulated unit of 21tons and a semi-trailer of 2 tons for Southhook Potteries, Ltd., Kilmarnock. He said that he assumed the licence would be continued and that Southhook Potteries would make the necessary arrangements.
The Authority said that he would not prejudice the operator's future, but in making a grant emphasized that the licence would allow the carriage of goods only for the named concern.