Leyland Shows How to Save Materials
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TO emphasize the need for greater effort in conserving raw materials, Leyland Motors, Ltd., staged at its Farington factory, this week, an "Economic Use of Materials" exhibi.tion, which gave numerous practical examples of ways of saving material. It will later be transferred to Leyland and Chorley. The employees' lunch limes will be extended to give all a chance to see it.
The display shows that alloy steel, now very difficult to obtain, accounts for 22.5 per cent of the weight of a bus. Percentages of other materials shown are: non-alloy-steel 33.7; timber 16.7; rubber 8.9; aluminium 7.8; cast iron 3.9; glass 2.3; and lead and copper 1.4 and 1 respectively.
Examples arc given of numerous methods alreldy adopted at Leyland by which material in short supply is being conserved. . For instance, the packing cases used for exporting drivers' cabs have now been superseded by a redesigned crate which saves 400 cubic ft., of timber and 2 cwt. of nails each
week. '
By modifying the method of manufacture of outrigger brackets used on Royal Tiger chassis, approximately 960 sq. ft. of steel plate is saved weekly. Another exhibit is the roof of a heavyduty goods cab, showing that, by producing this in a single pressing instead of making it in several sections, as mum as 33i pet cent, of material is saved.
The components on view have been chosen to cover almost every type of material used in bus manufacture—hide, timber, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, even to solder, 21 lb. of which is saved on the construction of each fuel tank by substituting seam welding.
SCOTTISH APPEAL FAILS
AN appeal by James Paterson and Co., Aberdeen, against a decision of the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority, was refused by the Transport (Appeal) Tribunal, last week. Paterson's wanted a licence to cover six vehicles for work at Aberdeen
docks. • The appeal was dismissed on the grounds of lack of evidence of need and inconvenience. The chairman remarked that the evidence showed that someone had PatersoO's traffic before the concern turned its attention to the work.
WYNN FINISHES THE JOB
THE large locomotive shown in the Transport Pavilion at the South Bank Exhibition has resumed its journey to India. It was moved to the site by Robert Wynn and Sons, Ltd., Newport, Mon., and this company last Sunday hauled the locomotive to Surrey Commercial Dock. The tender was to be conveyed separately later this week.
LINCS TRAILER FACTORY SOLD
THE factory premises, four-acre site and plant of the Lines Trailer Co., Ltd., Scunthorpe, were auctioned it separate lots last week. A solicitot bought the factory for .£13,000 for a client whose name was not disclosed.