Pallet Loading Increases Ice-cream Deliveries
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A LTHOUGH a typical vehicle could carry Z-1.2,300 gal. of ice-cream when loose-loaded by hand and only 2,000 gal, when the ice-cream was loaded on pallets by a fork-lift truck, mechanical handling saved a great deal of time, Mr. M. Bogod, director of J. Lyons and Co., Ltd., told the Institution of Production Engineers on Wednesday.
Including loading and unloading times, the pallet-loaded vehicle would take four hours to make a 30-mile delivery—less than half the time required by the handloaded vehicle. Although the palletloaded vehicle carried a smaller payload on each run, it could deliver 4,000 gal., against 2,300 gal, by the hand-loaded van.
Moreover, it took four men 20 manhours to loose-load a vehicle with 2,300 gal. of ice-cream, whereas two men with a fork-lift truck could do the work in two man-hours.
Mr. Bogod described the comprehensive planning of a new ice-cream factory for J. Lyons and Co., Ltd.
Work study throughout the factory was, he said, zomplemented by a similar study of distribution methods. Distribution—an operation greatly affected by the season and day-to-day weather conditions—had been carried out by driversalesmen, who estimated the day's requiremmts in making up their loads and completed a roughly planned series of calls in their allotted areas.
This arrangement was superseded by a carefully prepared rota of calls based on sale, predictions and later by delivering only to specific order after requirements had been ascertained by telephone. The mileage covered by each vehicle for each call made had been reduced and vehicles no longer returned to the depot with goods unsold.
APPEAL SUCCEEDS ON INCORRECT SUMMONS
AMAN who was fined £2 and had his licence endorsed by Billericay magistrates for driving a commercial vehicle above 30 m.p.h. last October, successfully appealed against the conviction last week.
In the Queen's Bench Division, Mr. George Hubble, Wood Green, London, N., was also allowed costs when Mr. Gerald Hines, for Essex County Council, saicLit was now conceded that the vehicle being driven was not goods but dualpurpose.
The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Parker, who sat with Mr. Justice Donovan and Mr. Justice Salmon, said the appeal was based only on an incorrectly drafted summons. He refused to comment on another question concerning the conveyance of passengers by Mr. Hines.
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Haulier's Expansion Bid • Goes to Inquiry
AHAULIER; whose present fleet comprises 70 vehicles, told a planning inquiry at Nottingham last week that if he were allowed to develop a site adjoining his present depot, his fleet would probably grow considerably.
Mr. James Gamble, managing director of James Gamble Transport, Ltd., was appealing against Notts County Council's refusal to aflow expansion. He wanted to buy 6,000 sq. yd. of orchard land adjoining his depot for storage and parking. , Residents whose houses backed on to the orchard objected on the grounds of noise and unsightly loaded lorries, despite Mr. Gamble's promise to build an 8-ft. wall round the extension.
Mr. Gamble said that if the appeal was not allowed he would find an alternative site and dispose of his present depot. The result of the inquiry will be made known later.
INDUSTRY IN SUPPORT OF SAFETY
FIVE of the first 26 concerns supporting a nation-wide contest in search of safety ideas and inventions are connected with the motor and transport industries.
The British Safety Contest was announced in the House of Commons by Mr. Richard Reader Harris (Cons.. Heston and Isleworth). A spokesman at the contest's trust office said it was hoped to award a first prize of £1,000, but this would depend entirely on the backing received.
Speaking at the inauguration, Mr. George Craddock (Lab., South Bradford) said that of 292,000 accidents in 1958, 5,536 took place on the roads.
AIR-COOLED 2-TONNER
ANEW 2-ton forward-control chassis, powered by an air-cooled 56 b.h.p. oil engine, has been introduced by the Italian manufacturers, O.M. The chassis layout provides for cab steps ahead of the front wheels, and the doors are hinged at the rear to give an unobstructed
opening into the cab. The model is known as the Lupetto,
Records Kept Well But Company Fined
"WE are dealing with a company who
VV should have used a system to ensure that the regulations were observed," said Mr. Lewis Smart, prosecuting for the Western Licensing Authority in a case at Bristol 'last week.
Before the court were A. H. Gore, hauliers, Clutton, Somerset, who were fined a total of £40 for various irregularities. They admitted five charges of carrying unspecified goods, one of allowing an employee to drive excessive hours, and six of failing to ensure that accurate records were kept. •
Four drivers were each fined £5 for not keeping proper srecords and a fifth fined £15 for driving excessive hours.
Mr. Smart explained that when Ministry of Transport inspectors visited the company they received every co-operation from employers and drivers, and found the state of the records to be of a high order.
Mr. T. D. Corpe, defending, told the court that record sheets for a two-month period had been examined. The matter must be regarded in the right perspective because only 12 of 1,500 record sheets examined were found incorrect.
The company were ordered to pay £10 10s. advocate's fee.
BRISTOL INCREASES CUT BY BUDGET
BUDGET concessions have reduced by 7 per cent, the number of Bristol fare stages likely to be affected by -fare increases.
Before the Budget, the Bristol Omnibus Co., Ltd., proposed an increase of 17 per cent. Now the City Council have been told that the estimate has been cut, to affect only 10 per cent, of the fare stages.
The company's general manager, Mr. Ian Patey, reports that Bristolians have for the past year been travelling more cheaply as a result of cross-linking of services.
Of 5,000 fare stages in the city more than half have shown a saving of at least Id. Mr. Patey points out that the company have operated with 100 drivers short for the past seven years.