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by David Lowe
BEM for brave tanker driver
• When his tanker, loaded with 9 tons of propane gas, caught fire, a driver for Calorgas (Distributing) Co. Ltd., Mr. Gordon Harding, 38, of Shirley, Southampton, drove it 100 yards clear of a group of children waiting for a school bus near army quarters. Although his hair and clothes were ablaze, Mr. Harding first tried to put out the flames, but finding this impossible and fearing an explosion, he drove the vehicle, with its wheels alight, to open ground where a fire tender later extinguished the flames.
For this act of gallantry Mr. Harding was included among 11 men who, on Tuesday of last week, were named in the London Gazette for the award of the British Empire Medal for brave conduct.
Traffic management manual
• The Ministry of Transport and the Welsh Office have jointly issued to local authorities -Traffic Management and Parking", a manual of guidance which is intended to help them in the use of their traffic regulation and parking powers. These powers were considerably extended under Part IX of the Transport Act 1968 through the procedures laid down in the Local Authorities' Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales) Regulations 1969 (S.I. 1969/463). which came into operation on 21 April.
The manual has been designed in looseleaf form, so that additions and modifications may be readily incorporated. Copies may be purchased through TIP Division, Ministry of Transport. St Christopher House, Southwark St., London S.E.1 price £2 15s, plus postage.
New Martin Walter centre
• The Martin Walter group, responsible for the retailing of Bedford trucks throughout Kent for many years, has now consolidated its commercial interests into a single commercial vehicle centre at Ashford Road, Chartham. near Canterbury.
This centre is strategically located to give a 24-hour repair and recovery service to TIF3 operators running heavy commercials to the South East. A Leyland Caledonian is available for heavy recovery work.
The workshops at the centre are fully equipped with all the latest brake test and dynamometer test equipment to handle pre MoT examinations and a big stock of Bedford spares is held.
Bradford rates rise
• As foreshadowed in CM October 3, the Bradford Hauliers Federation has followed the example of the Leeds Federation by raising haulage rates 10 per cent, with effect from November 1. Some 30 hauliers in the Bradford, Halifax and Dewsbury area made this decision last week.
• British Car Auctions Ltd. ask us to point out that in their advertisement for October 3 some dates were incorrect and that the next Leeds sales will be on the third Friday every month. October 17 and November 21 and the next Manchester sales on the first Friday every month. November 7 and December 5.
Exhibitions galore
THE ROUND of container and associated transport exhibitions continues with three this month—Hamburg, October 21-26; Genoa, October 18-26: and Rotterdam, October 21-25. Already details are being announced concerning Mack Brooks fourth Container Services and Equipment Exhibition. This will be held at Olympia during the first week in June 1970 and many overseas exhibitors are expected. A conference will be held in conjunction with the exhibition which is sponsored by the London Chamber of Commerce, Dock and Harbour Authority, and ICHCA.
Machine loadings
LOADING of heavy single items of machinery into containers can be easily carried out by the use of the new Joloda hydraulic equipment. At the recent Earls Court Container Exhibition, Joloda demonstrated the loading of a 7-ton, £50,000 gas turbine engine into a container. Since then an OCL shipment of a 110-ton wire drawing
machine the largest piece of equipment OCL has ever moved—was accomplished by loading it into the containers in sections by the use of Joloda equipment, the two main parts being 32ft and 27ft long and weighing 20 tons each.
The new 20-ton-capacity Joloda equipment has removable tracks which can be extended in sections to provide any desired length for loading indivisible loads into end-loading containers. After use the tracks can be removed from the container without damage to the floor. Text book
ALTHOUGH news reports on containerization and publicity material has been widely available for some time, the subject up to now has received little attention in textbook form.
A book published this month by Hutchinson, Containerisation—A Modern Transport System by G. Van den Burg, price 63s, fills this gap.
Covering in a concise but informative manner containerization from its history to its future prospects with chapters on standardization, palletization, packing, documentation, labour and manpower problems, the economics of containerization and other related subjects, the book provides an easy means of obtaining an insight into the whole aspect of the subject in one volume. A chapter-by-chapter bibliography provides an extensive list of other reading and reference material.
Karricons for Halifax
A CONTRACT to supply five Karricon self-propelled straddle carriers has been won by Rubery Owen and Co. Ltd. The machines, worth approximately £300,000, are for Halterm Ltd. for use at the new container terminals in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which Halterm is operating under lease from the National Harbour Board.
This contract is only part of more than El ;m-worth of equipment that will be required to operate the new containerport which is being constructed in Halifax and is expected to be operational by mid-1970.
Two 45-ton gantry cranes are on order and two machines for loading containers to and from rail wagons are also expected to be ordered soon.
Dart Containerliner, the first client of Halterm has had an interim service in operation since early July, utilizing three containerships carrying 200 containers in and out of Halifax each week.
Dar progress
THREE of the world's largest containerships are under construction for Dar Containerline, the British, Canadian and Belgian shipping consortium.
The ships will he capable of carrying 1,500 mixed 20ft and 40ft containers at 23 knots.
Total cost of the ship and container programme will be in excess of £20m.