Converted Gritter for Cardiff
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CARDIFF Corporation officials hope to be able to combat ice and snow on the city's roads this winter by speeding up their grit-spreading service—at only a fraction of the usual cost.
The vehicle employed is based on a 12 year old Dennis gully emptier chassis. This was equipped with a reconditioned engine and then sent to Atkinson's Agricultural Appliances, Ltd.. Clitheroe, where it was fitted with a hopper body (at the base of which Ihere is a rubber conveyor belt) and spreading equipment. The conversion cost about £580, and the vehicle, which can bold four tons of salt and grit, is said to have an unladen weight of only 3 tons.
The equipment fitted is similar to that used on the Ministry of Transport's motorway gritters, and the vehicle can operate at speeds of up to 15 m.p.h. Its prime advantage over former methods of road gritting used in Cardiff is that the vehicle can be on the road within five minutes of being called and it can spread its load in less than half an hour
if necessary. \ OPPORTUNITY FOR HULL HAULIERS
THE dismissal by the Transport Tribunal of the apnlication by the Hull Fish Merchants' Protection Association, Ltd., asking for amendment to the conditions governing perishable goods sent by British Railways at owners' risk rates, looks like an opportunity for road hauliers.
Last month, the Association's President. Mr. Ian Class, asked the Tribunal to delete the word " wilful " from the preamble to the relevant conditions, thus removing the onus on the trader sending perishable goods by rail at owners' risk rates from having to prove that damage has been caused by wilful conduct of British Railways or its employees.
400-BUS ORDER FOR GERMANY
THE West German bus manufacturer Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz AG, of Cologne, has received an order for 400 motorbuses from the Government of the United Arab Republic. The buses are single-deckers and will be fitted with aircooled Deutz diesel engines.