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Minor Changesin Sentinel Models

1st August 1952, Page 29
1st August 1952
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ALle Sentinel vehicles to be shown it the Commercial Motor Show at Earls Court, will be fitted with the maker's direct-injection oil engines. The wheelbase of the Sentinel 4/4 7-8tonner for the home market will be 16 ft., an increase . of 1 ft. 3 ins. Vacuum-assisted braking will be installed. The 78-ton • export chassis will have compressed-air braking.

The light six-wheeler will be exhibited with a redesigned rear bogie, and the wheelbase will be 3 ins. longer. This model will have QlaytonDewandre air-pressure braking, as will

• the heavy six-wheeled export chassis. A road-test report of a new Sentinel right-hand-drive export passenger model, with an 18-ft. 4-in. wheelbase and 33-ft. chassis, appears on pages 16-19.

TRANSPORT TOO CHEAP IN THE PAST?

," IT may be that transport has been "too cheap in the past, as transport users have become accustomed to little or no change in rates for long periods of years. Whatever the reason, if costs go soaring, reasonable—and I underline

reasonable '—increases in fares cannot he withheld."

The Yorkshire Licensing Authority, Maj. F. S. Eastwood, made this statement at a luncheon held to mark the 70th anniversary of Huddersfield Transport Department. He said that every other industry expected to put up -its prices without recourse to public inquiry, but when a properly administered publicly owned undertaking gave notice that it must raise charges there were protests.

MARKJOHN ACQUIRED: 92 VEHICLES INVOLVED

. SEa large part of the country, Markjohn Mechanical Spreaders, Ltd., has been acquired by Pest Control (United Kingdom), Ltd., Bourn, Cambridge. This involves the transfer of 92 vehicles, based on the following depots: Reading, Oxford, Corsham (Wilts), Coscornbe (Glos), Fosse Cross (Glos), Enstone (Oxon), Mere (Wilts), Oswestry, Halkyn (Flint). Anglesey and Much Wenlock. Application has been made to the appropriate Licensing Authorities for the transfer of licences.

EUROPEAN ROAD FUND APPROVED

A N announcement by the United 1-1. Nations Economic Commission for Europe, last week, revealed that the plan to establish a road fund for Western Europe, reported in " The Commercial Motor" on July 18, has been approved by the inland transport committee. This body has called for the preparation of a draft statute for this fund to finance the construction of principal international highways in Europe.

The Governments of Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Luxembourg have declared their readi

ness to participate in the fund. The roads to be improved or constructed

with finances from the fund form part of the special (E) routes in 20 countries, mapped out as a European road network by the Governments in the commission.

ACTION ON LIGHTING AND ROADS

RECOMMENDATIONS are to be made by the Standing Joint Committee of the Royal Automobile Club, the Automobile Association and the Royal Scottish Automobile Club to the Government that new legislation on motor-vehicle lig hti ng equipment should be , introduced as soon as possible. The committee, which a short time ago published a comprehensive report on the lighting of vehi6les, considers that • reform is urgently needed.

Strong representations are also to be made by the committee, in Parliament and elsewhere, to change the order of priorities relating to general capital expenditure. In the committee's view, the construction of new roads, the improvement of existing ones and the completion of development work begun years ago and left unfinished, are of vital importance to the country's economic well-being.

AVON TO MAKE SIEBERLING TYRES

COR many years technical liaison has I existed between the Avon India Rubber Co., Ltd., and the Sieberling Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio, U.S.A. By mutual arrangement, a new company has now been formed under the title of Sieberling Rubber Co. (Great Britain) with a capital of £15,000. The board is composed of directors of the Avon concern and representatives of the American company.

Sieberling commercial-vehicle and car tyres will now be made here by Avon, the manufacturing agreement making available to the American company's customers abroad, tyres for which payment in sterling, as compared with the ose of American currency, will prove advantageous.

MUNICIPAL PAY CLAIM FOR INDUSTRIAL COURT

AT a meeting of the National Joint Industrial Council for the Road passenger transport industry, the claim of 60,000 employees of municipal bus undertakings for increased pay was referred to the Industrial Court. Drivers, conductors and • maintenance staff are affected by the decision.

The claim was put forward by the Transport and General Workers' Union and other unions. No statement on the decision had been made by the Municipal Passenger Transport Association early this week.

NEW Lo.T. GROUP THE council of the Institute of Trans" port has approved the formation of a south-west Lancashire group by the

Merseyside section. It will comprise _members of .all grades in St. Helens, Prescot, Widnes, Warrington, Wigan and Leigh..


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