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RATES AGREED FOR GRAIN HAULAGE-.
AGREEMENT has been reached amongst hauliers in the Eastern Area of R.H.A. regarding rates for the haulage of grain, feeding stuffs, fertilizers and lime. These rates become effective from August 1 next and are quoted per ton, as follow :—
at The aLole rates to app'y to lots ot 5 ono and over, 4 tone and 2 -tons respectively, ex-mill or ex-farm, on local and cross-country iourneys, one pick-up end one drop. within the
Eastern Traffic Area. , 12/ Lots between 2 tons and 4 tons should be charged at the actuai weight at the 2-ton rate, or if cheaper, charged r1,5 ior 4 1005 at ihe 4-ton rate. Similarly, lots between 4 'tens and 5 tons should no charged at be actual weight at the 4-ton raze, or it cheaper, charged as her 5 tons at the 5-ton rate.
HOW THE MOTOR INDUSTRY SAVED BRITAIN
EvERA member of the motor industry, whether on the commercial or private side, shottld obtain a copy of the wonderful story of the industry's war effort, " Drive for Freedom.' Published at 2s. net, by Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., the "author is Charles Graves! who was commissioned-for this purposethe Public Relations COMmitte ofthe. s.m.m1T. We hope to give a résumé in a subsequent issue. .
DIPLOMAS FOR EX-SERVICEMEN . MOTOR MECHANICS
t`NGLAND,Scotland and Wales are La.covered by 24 area committees, now being set up to administer the plan for qualifying motor-vehicle mechanics to receive the National Craftsman's Certificate from the Ministry of Education. and the Scottish Edutation Department. TheGovernment has agreed-to pay a substantial part Of tile cost ofinclud ing in the course of training ex-Servicemen who were apprentice motor-vehicle mechanics when they joined up. They trill be able to complete their time at adult rates of pay and qualify for the
National Certificates. •
The new area committees will be appointed by the National "Joint Industrial 'Council for the Motor Vehicle Retail and Repairing .Trade, which is collaborating with the -technical training authorities in holding the practical examination for the Certificate.
DENNIS BUSES FOR 1946
WE learn that Dennis Bros., Ltd,, will recommence, early next year, the production of buses. These will he singleand double-deckers, probably 32and 62-seaters, respectively, equipped with the new six-cylindered oil: engine with which eve recently carried out -a test.
LIFTING OF TRANSPORT RESTRICTIONS
(IN a number of occasions recently %a/notices have appeared in the PreSs, or have been broadcast, that an Older had just been issued to the. effect that the transport of soft fruit, Or apples, or potatoes, was„ no longer "subject to restrictions but could-be taken by road anywhere—or within 85 miles, or some such condition. Hauliers reading, or hearing, of such removal of restrictions should not act precipitately. They should.firsi ellscover whence the Order-comes, for if it be from toe Ministry of -Food they may not take what may seem to be appropriate action. Their movements are governed by the Ministry of War. Transport. The appropriate course to folloW, after having ascertained the source of the Order, is to remember that it is an offence to use fuel for any-purpose other . than that for which it is issued and prior sanction for Sudh journeys Must he obtained from the D.T.O. .•
A " GET-TOGETHER " AT LEYLAND'S LONDON OFFICE
WE referred last week to the opening in .Hanover House, . Hanover Square, London, W.1, by Leyland Motors, Ltd., of anew London office. This is part of -the re-establishment of the company's sales organization, which is in charge of Mr. S. Cartmell. now home sales manager: The opening was a very. pleasant informal function which was attended by many prominent members of the Municipal Pa.ssenger-transport Association. Apart from well-known Members of the Leyland staff, we saw Messrs. D C,. Coodier, of Wallasey; E. Phillips, of Gellygaer; J.. H. Jones, Merthyr Tydfil; C. Thomas, Caerphilly; A. Twidle, B.E.T.; Frank Lythgoe, Manchester; Irwin Baker, Ashton-under. Lyne; H. Broughton, Burnley, Coins and Nelson joint Transport Committee; Clem Jackson,' Plymouth; G. Beckett, who has recently taken over Darwen, and of-course. Mr, E. L. Cadwallader, of C.A.V., -Ltd,.,
MORE FREEDOM TO.SELL VEHICLES :
THE Minister of War Transport has revoked the Emergency Powers (Defence) Acquisition and Disposal of Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Order, 1942 (a) as from July 1. . Amongst the clauses in this Order were that a manufacturer must not dispose of an unregistered Vehicle to a dealer unless the dealer's custorAr liatf a licence to acquireit; a licence to acquire lapsed unless an order fOr the vehicle were placed within one month of its date; where" a vehicle acquired under licence was taken back by a hiring-or hire-purchase company, it caltulci not he disposed of exci.-pt under another licence.
MAN-POWER PROBLEMS IN MUNICIPAL TRANSPORT
ON Monday last, a report was pro-. sented to Leeds Passenger Transport Committee on an interview at . which man-power difficulties were discussed between representatives of the Ministries of Transport and Labour and a Municipal Passenger Transport Association deputation, including representatives of the Leeds, Glasgow, and Plymouth undertakings, which are very hard hit by labour shortage. The two. Ministries are stated to have shown -a sympathetic attitude to the difficulties in these threecities, birt to have been unable to offer any readymade solution.
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ASSOCIATIONS TO BE SET un LAST week a conference of road transport associations was held at Manchester to consider the formatiim of a National Conference of Road Transport Associations, when representatives of associations . were present from various parts of the country. It was resolved that they ahould go back' to their various organizations and put before them the proposa:s for the setting up of a National Conference and report back to a further meeting to be he:d in Manchester on July 25 for the purpose of implementing the resolution, Any assoCiation interested in the project should communicate with the secretary of the Amalgamated Horse and Motor Owners' .Association, 155, Cheetham FIill Road; Manchester, 8,
ALL-NIGHT QUEUE FOR SEATS • FOR COACH JOURNEYS
PEopLE who had waited all night were at the -head of a long queue outside the offices of Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., Corn Exchange, Leeds, on Monday morning, July 16, seeking .10 bodk for motor-coach journeys to the seaside on Bank Holiday Saturday, the :beginning of the Leeds holiday week. The queue surrounded the Corn Exchange building, and many people had to be disappointed.' Such was the rush -of prospective holidaymakers to b6ok for Blackpool that all available, seats were sold by 10 a.m., an hour and a half after the booking office opened. In addition-to the nesting of a " Blackpool sold out " notice, couriers weresent around the building to inform people still waiting to book, for this resort that, there was no hopeof getting seats:
M.P.T.A. ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT
AT the a.g.m. of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association, held in London last week, the retiring president, MCC. R. Tattam,
A.M.I.E.E., transport manager of Bradford, referred to the immediate difficulties with which passenger road transport had to contend.
Labour shortage was, a course, the chief trouble, but there was., the
question of discipline, he said. At the moment, it was Of a low standard, but he thought that it was a matter which would largely solve itself as the publicservice-minded personnel gradually returned from the Services.
Mr. T. J. Gooding, M.B.E., J.P., chairman of Leicester Passenger Trans port Committee, was elected president, and Mr. Charles A. Hopkins, M.Inst.T., tramways manager of Sunderland, vice president, for the ensuing year. Mr. R. Stuart Filcher, C.B.E., F.R.S.E., M.Inst.T., general manager of Man chester's transport department, was re-elected honorary treasurer, and Mr. John Atkinson, t_o wn c I e r k of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was re-elected honorary secretary, BID TO RESTRICI MOBILE-SHOP SALES
IT is recommended by the Parliamentary committee of Cardiff Corporation that powers should be sought to prohibit the sale of articles from peripatetic vehicles when such articles cannot lawfully, under the Shops Acts,
be sold ig shops By a recent "High Court dension, no powers now exist in these Acts for the control of sales from such vehicles. It is suggested that power might be song* making it unlawful to carry on trade from any kind of vehicle when it would be unlawfullor a shop to do so.
FUTURE OF TROLLEYBUSES QUESTIONED
WHEN a recommendation by the IfV transport committee to extend trolleybus services was considered by South Shields Town Council, Councillor T, S. Hardesty Moved the reference back of the plan. He contended that within 10 years trolleybuses would be obsolete, and' suggested that motorbuses would be more suitable. He asserted that the streets were not suitable for trolley, vehicles. The reference back was defeated. The ,proposal is to replace the last tram service with trolleybuses at a cost of £10,000, and to .eXtend the service from Mile End to the I,awe.
FREEING OF ANTI-FREEZE. MATERIALS
LAST Monday there came into force the Control of Engine, etc., Antifreeze (No. 3) (Revocation) Order, 1945, revoking Anti-freeze Orders No. 1 of 1942 and No. 2 of 1944. From the above date, no licences are necessary for the production, disposal, and aequi, sition of anti-freeze materials.
Adequate supplies of glycerine are available, but ethylene glycol cannot yet be freed for this purpose. FINED FOR CONTRAVENING GOODS TRANSPORT ORDER
THE road haulage of a load of senna leaves from Yorkshire to London, arid of a grinding machine as a return load, recently led to a prosecution at Pontefract. The prosecution stated that each journey of about 200 miles was made without a permit, in contravention of the Road Transport. of Goods Order.
For causing the two transportations, Archbold (Freightage), Ltd., of Jack
0 Lane, Leeds, was fined £10 inclusive in each of the two instances. For permitting them, Mr. John Rudge, of Pontefract, was fined £1 with 14s. 6L1. costs in each case. Two similar summonses against his wife were dismissed on payment of 14s. 6d. costs in each *stance.
It was explained by the prosecution that Mr_ and Mrs. Rudge, business -partners, had a 5-ton lorry which they sent to the Archbold company for work, with the result that' it was used for the journeys in question.
TRAFFIC ADMINISTRATORS DISCUSS REORGANIZATION
. A T the July meeting of the North' Staffs Centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration, recently held at Stoke-on-Trent, Mr. W. A. Calderbank, M.B.E., F.I.T.A., A.M.Inst.T., spoke on the subject of "The Future
of Inland Freight Transport." He said that the services of various forms of transport could and should be reorganized, and outlined his suggestions for the centralization of road-transport control, so that road and rail could be brought to a common level in the matter of freight charges. and facilities. Monopolistic conditions, he said, need not be introduced, but rather the trader should be allowed to retain a measure of freedom in his choice between his own and hired transport.
• OPERATION OF GROUPING MOVEMENT IN THE NORTH
A GENERAL meeting of Lakeland Road Transport Services, Ltd., -was recently held in Carlisle to review progress of the group duringits first five months of operation, and to discuss future development. The secretary reported that there are now. 48 members in the group, leaving only two vacancies to complete the maximum number of shareholders permitted in a private company. It would soon be ,necessary, it was added, to consider means whereby it would be possible for More haulage operators in.Cumberland and' Westmorland to join the grouping movement.
A surplus traffic pool is being satisfactoril operated, and it .performs a: aluable service in co-relating vehicles
to available work. ...
Through the National Association of Road Transport Groups, to which the group is affiliated, arrangements have been made with a finance company for. hire-purchase facilities to be available: to group members at uniform, low interest rates, and .consideration is now
beim. given to:the provision ..'of
. . • . . standardized goods-in-transit ,,insurance policies ,.at uniform premiums.. Comment was made on the inade-,
quacy of garage, hostel and service facilities: and the chairman stated that the directors favour opening a service station and hostel locally if arrangements can he made with other groups to provide similar accommodation. It was agreed to raise this point for discussion at a N.R.T.G. meeting.
ANOTHER TOLL BRIDGE TO GO? MORTHUMBERLAND County C,oun 1 is in touch with the Newborn Bridge Co. for the freeing from tolls oi Newborn Bridge, which is now the only' toll bridge over the River Tyne.
SCOTTISH BUSINESS BOUGHT
WE learn that Mr, Wm, Johnston, 20, Wellington Place, Montrose, has bought the old-established carrier business. carried on by Mr. Archibald Scott, at 13, Chapel Place, Montrose.
FORD' WAR PRODUCTION F IGUR ES IN our issue dated June 29, we gave
some figures relative to the production of war material by the Ford *Motor Co., Ltd.. durini='' the period of the Eutopean war up toVE-Day. One item mentioned was 322,509 vehicles; the actual figure should have been 332,509. •
NO INCREASE IN 'SUGAR-BEET HAULAGE RATES MOT WITHSTANDING wage i n
1 N creases and higher tyre costs, which have taken place since the previous sugar-beet, campaign, hauliers in the Eastern Area of R.H.A. have agreed to carry sugar beet and sugarbeet pulp; carried during the intake of beet, during the forthcoming campaign, at the same rates as before. These rates are as follow :—
OBITUARY
We regret to learn of the death of Mu. A. M. FULFORD, who (vas sales Manager of Mesirs. Gregory's,' a dis'tribuicie of Bedford vehicles, with headquarters at Uxbridge. He was 50 years okl and -joined the firm in 1933.
THE CARE OF SYNTHETIC TUBES • • AND FLAPS
EMPHASIS on the need for obtaining -thP greatest possible service from synthetic tubes for tyres is, laid by the Tyre Manufacturers Conference. Syn, thetic being a very different product from natural rubber, users should riot forget that this very difference demands unusual treatment. 1 The packages containing such tubes and Raps, and the tubes and flaps themselves, are Clearly marked, the flap with a coloured disc or, alternatively, in the-, case of the tube„with a coloured strip tanning. around it. Attached 'to each flap are detailed instructions on how to use the soap solution, which is the main departure in fitting both. The simple instructions should be followed with care.
OVERSEAS SERVICEMEN VISIT MORRIS-COMMERCIAL WORKS SERVICEMEN. from Canada, Australia 'and New Zealand recently paid a visit to the Morris-Commercial factory at Adderley Park, Birmingham. Many of them had had practical experience of Armyvehicles and were Interested in seeing Morris-COmmercial vehicles actually under conStruction: 'They were particularly impressed with the care taken in the production of machined parts and final assembly. The party,. which consisted of Naval and Air Force personnel was sponsored by the British Council, which, in conjunction with the Forces Advisory Council, is arranging a series of courses covering commercial contacts.
GUY MOTORS HELPS REIP,CROSS' APPEAL ASPECIAL Red Cross week was recently held by the Mayor of Wolverhampton, and Guy Motors, Ltd.. was one of the works which co-operated and ran ti special effort in its own fac
tory. A number of fenctions was organized and the management added the proceeds from the sale of ti e "Transport Through the Syzygles booklet, whith 'formed a sequel to a . series of the company's advertisements in " The-Commercial Motor.", For the second year in succession the company headed the list of industrial contributors to this appeal.
C.A.V. FIRE BRIGADE WINS TROPHIES
A T the recent fourtkannual competi
tion carried out by the Industrial Fire Brigades of Great Britain, that of the C.A.V. comprised teams representing C.A.V., Lucas and Luvax, and. it succeeded in winning the Wakefield Cup by gaining first and second places in the close times of 46 and 46.2 secs., respeetively. Third place was -also gained in the County Cup Competition..
At their own Inter-works Competi,tion, held at the C.A.V. Athletic Asapciation meeting, both the Cadwallader and Joseph Lucas Efficiency Cops were won by the CAN, team and the Association Cup by Lucas.
.These three separate works. teams have been combined during the ivaG and called the C.A,V..Brigade. Trained and organized, by CtO Millwood,they have proved theirvalue and. efficienCy.
T.R.T.A. GETS BUSY
ASTATEMENT of policy has been . formulated for the .T.R.T.A., and will soon be published in brochure form. It will. be supplied to every member.
The publicity department of the N.R.T.F. has had under consideration the desirability of keeping internal bodies, such as chambers of commerce and trade, fully informed in roadtransport matters, and solicits their support. As a first step, members have been requested to send to the national secretary of the T.R.T.A. certain information regarding their local chambers and suggestions for strengthening the liaison between them and the road-transpoq industry.
A new area of the T.R.T.A. has been established to cover South Yorkshire, the office being at Midland Bank Chambers, Charles Street, Sheffield, 1. Lieut-Colonel H. Caulfield-Giles has been elected area chairman.
For the information of-members it is pointed out that the official date of the end of the EurOpean War, for the purposes of tenancy agreements, etc., is May 9, 1945.
COMPANY'S TRIBUTE TO THE OWNER-DRIVER
Icelebration of the silver jubilee of North Western Transport . Services, Ltd. (formerly Ex-Array Transport, Ltd.), the company gave a dinner last week, at Manchester, to its chief executives and staff. Mr. S. Royle, M.Inst.T., chairman of the company, was presented with an illuniinated scroll and oak casket with silver inscribed panels, and with a framed photograph of himself.
Mr. Royle spoke of the origin of the company and how, by providing cheap and efficient transport, it had created a service needed by traders and manufacturers who produced and sold goods for consumption in the home and overseas markets. The company had been, and still was, a great supporter of the owner-driver, the so-called little man, whose enterprise, spirit of adventure. courage and integrity had made this . country so powerful in the industrial world.
33Pr. H. C. Brayton, chairman of
Transport Services, Ltd., said it.was a 'fundamental principle when a company became part of the group that it should paddle its own canoe. Transport Services,. Ltd., gave advice, provided buying facilities, special insurances, etc., but the rest depern*d upon the individual. company, which carried on as before with the advantage of being better equipped • With facilities to enhance it's efficiency. Each company retained its individuality, but benefited from collective organization. Transport was the hand-maiden of. commerce and industry; low transport costs were
essential to the manufacturer. The way to achieve them was not by reducing wages, but by keeping vehicles in constant and useful employment, eliminating ...the risk of accidents and keeping down losses froth pilferage.
VULCAN DEALER IN SCOTLAND
WE areadvised that Armour Motors (G lasgo w), Ltd., Newburgh Works, plewlands, Glasgow, S.3, has been appointed an additional dealer in Scotland for Vulcan Motors, Ltd., under its main distributors, Messrs. H. C. Hutchison, of Edinburgh. .
HINTS ON EXTRUDING ALUMINIUM AND ITS ALLOYS
AS from June 30, the functions of the Wrought Light Alloys Development Association have been taken over bya new body, the Aluminium Development Association, which includes all settions of the aluminiumand aluminium-alloy industry. The address will continue to be Union Chambers, 63, Temple Row, Birmingham, 2.
The latest publication of this body is " Aluminium Alloy Extruded Sections: Notes on Design and Manufacturing Tolerances." This is being published on behalf of the technical committee of the Wrought Light Alloys Association.
The value of the extrusion process hardly needs emphasis, but whether light-alloy extrusions have always been used in the past in the most efficient way is another,matter. The aim of the brochure is to provide design staffs with valuable information which will assist them in the design of such sections to make for maximum efficiency. INST. OF T. PROGRAMME
THE provisionalprovisional Programme of meetings of the Institute of Transport in London for the session 1945-46 has been planned as follows: October 8, preeideritlal address; November 6, anniversary lunch; Nevember 12, ordinary meeting; December 10, Henry Spurrier Memorial' Lecture. 1946: January 14, ordinary meeting; February 5, luncheon arid addrees; February 11, ordinary meeting.; March 11, Bramcker Memorial Leoture; March 20, dinner and dance; April 8, ordinary meeting; April 26, luricheon and atislreas; May 13, ordinary meeting.
In addition, there will be the annual general meeting on a date to be arranged in December, 1945, discussion group meetings, and meetings of the Graduate and Student Society.
RESUMPTION OF PRIVATE TRADE . WITH FRANCE
ACCORDING to a notice from the Board of Trade, the French Government is prepared to grant, on certain -conditions, licences for the import on , private account of • spare parts and replacements for all types of machinery and equipment, and other manufactured products in quantities less than 'five tons in weight and £5,000 in value (excluding industrial plant and machine tools, agricultural machinery, trucks, hand tools, books, publications, etc.).
Importers must apply in France to the appropriate authorities for licences, and when these are issued will be able to obtain tile foreign exchange necessary for the purchases. Such import licences will be granted only in respect of goods required to meet the essential needs of France. • Normal United Kingdom licensing procedure will apply to goods subject to licences on export under the Export of Goods (Control) Order. Application should be made to the Export Licensing Department, 4, Fenchurch Avenue, London, E.C.3.
Application for shipping facilities must. be made in duplicate, giving the usual information and the French import-licence number. They should be addressed to the Commercial Counsellor to the French Embassy, 3, Albert flail Mansions, London, S.W.7, accompanied by two copies of the relevant invoices. Goods should be consigned to Impex (for the importers' account) at the port of unloading in France