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Transport Users Sav ing Hundreds of Pounds of Capital .
DRESENT-DAY industrial
conditions are so complex that one is apt to overlook the benefits which have accrued.as the result of highly competitive trading. In the matter of commercial-vehicle prices, many operators who have entered the transport field in recent years take things as they find them, but those of longer standing will be well aware of the advantages that they now enjoy in this direction. H not, let them ponder on just one example. In 1930 the price of the Commer 4-5-tonner was £895, whereas to-day it is 2299. Has this amazing reduction been achieved by sacrificing performance and efficiency? You have the answer in the regularity with which thousands of vehicles of all makes are executing their daily toil.
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A Huge Moving Job Enforced by Growing Sales
THE Ford Company is I undertaking a tremendous
moving job at its Dagenham works. Increased production
has rendered necessary the shifting of 2,000 machines of an average weight of 31 tons, the redistribution being necessary to provide room for new tools, to feed which approximately two miles of overhead chain conveyers are to be added. It will be necessary to install 12 miles of wiring, eight Miles of piping for air and cooling liquid, and to relay some 1,000,000 wood floor blocks. All preliminary work has been done, but the main operations which will slow production will be effected during the holiday period. The capacity of the works will then be increased by 25 per cent.
A Small Flying Club NAAN1' people believe that
Started by la Stafford all interested in road trans
Flaul;er port should obtain some knowledge of flying, and apart from the important flying clubs inaugurated by big concerns, an enterprising haulier of Stafford, Mr. Maurice Collins, founded a small club two years ago. At present it uses only gliders, but one of the members has constructed a Flying Flea. The entrance fee is only 5s., and the annual subscription 15s. for flying members and 5s. for others.
Coloured Traffic Lanes • AN experiment that will be
to Promote Road well worth watching is Safety being undertaken by Mr. S. M. Lovell, district surveyor for the Long Aston District of Somerset County Council. On the experimental division of the Bristol-Weston-superMare road there has already been laid down a section of road divided into two traffic lanes with a different coloured surface. The latest experiment on a road of suitable width is to provide three traffic lanes of different colours with a faceted kerb giving better definition to the road verge in the dark. The coloured lanes automatically show the driver whether he is travelling on the correct section of the road, moreover, the scheme leaves white lines free for indicating only a source of danger. The cost of such a scheme is no more than laying a normal road surface and the advantages should be greater than the extended use of white lines.
Newcastle Intends to MOT long ago we referred to Light All its Belisha •I• the fact that it would Beacons eventually be found advisable to illuminate Belisha beacons, as so often these are confused with other signs, or are, for one reason or another, difficult to discern. The City Council of Newcastle-on-Tyne has now decided to carry out this project with the 171 beacons in its area, at a cost of £1,200. It is believed that this authority is the first to take the step. It is for the reason that, at certain times, the beacons cannot be seen.