RUBBER FOR CONVEYOR BELTS CONTROLLED
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ANEW Order, the Control of NEW (No 8), limits the quality to which conveyor and elevator belting may be manufactured, also the thickness of the rubber covers of such belting. Exception is made for that , required for carrying certain hot or heavy materials. Disposal of belting is prohibited except under licence, which will be issued to manufactUrers and factors having regard to the purposes for which the belting is required, also to the stocks of consumers.
Applications for licences must be addressed to the Rubber Control, Empire House, St. Martins-le-Grand, London, E.C.I.
INSTITUTE OF THE MOTOR TRADE EXAMINATIONS
r-IN April 24, the Institute of the 1.--/Motor Trade is holding its 31st examination in London and certain
provincial centres. The Council is.
offering gold, silver and bronze medals for the three candidates securing the highest number of marks in the 1942 examinations held in April and November, Full particulars of the examination syllabus and regulations, and copies of papers set at recent examinations (price 1s.) may be obtained from the acting secretary of the Institute, 201, Great Portland Street, London, W.1.
DOUBT CAST ON HOMEPRODUCED-FUEL SUFFICIENCY REPLYING to a question by Sir P. Hannon, the Secretary for Mines said in Parliament last week that he was expecting within the next fortnight an interim report from the technical committee which is road-testing producer-gas equipment, but it would be some time before the trials were completed. He was not satisfied that over-all costs were lower.
Mr. E. Smith asked what stej had been taken to save imported fuel tsy the use of alternatives; whether making it compulsory for operators to run a percentage of their vehicles on alternative fuel had been considered, and whether he (Mr. Grenfell) was satisfied with the practicability of homeproduced fuel for all vehicles.
Substantial savings, answered the S.f.M., in imported oils had been effected by the use of home-produced coal-tar. oiL There hacL been a increase in the amount of benzole recovered. There was no likelihood of home-produced fuels being available for all road vehicles, but the feasibility of increasing the number of vehicles running on producer-gas was being actively investigated; the governing factor in the problem was coal supply.
ARMY TAKES 55 PER CENT. OF ACCIDENT RESPONSIBILITY
HOWmany cases of soldiers in uniform driving unauthorized Army vehicles and colliding with other vehicles or with pedestrians had been reported in the past six months, asked Captain Plugge of the Under-Secretary of State for War, last week, and what had been the maximum' penalty imposed in each type of case?
Mr. Sandys said that, to date, there had been reported to the War Office, as having oc.curred during the past six months, 42 accidents in which an Army vehicle, being driven without authority by a soldier in uniform, had collided with a civilian vehicle, and seven cases in which such a vehicle had collided with a civilian. In only 24 and three of these cases, respectively, had the Claims Commission decided that, as the War Department would not have been legally liable had it been a private .employer, it could not assume responsibility for the damage or injury caused by the collision.
As the soldier responsible is usually arraigned on more than one charge arising out of the escapade, and as only one sentence is awarded in respect of all the charges on which an accused soldier is found guilty, he was not in a position to answer the last part of the question, MOTOR TRADE MONTHLY IN. POCKET SIZE
OnUR old friend, Percy Peters, of the motor trade monthly " Motor Commerce," tells us that, commencing April, that paper will be reduced to the page size of 7 ins, by 4. ins.
A GUIDE TO COMPULSORY SERVICE
AUSEFUL little guide, entitled " You and the Call-up," for the use of men and women in respect of their liability to compulsory service in the Forces, industry, Home Guard and Civil Defence, and its implications, has been written by Mr. Robert S. W. Pollard, and published at 1s. by Blandford _Press, Ltd., 16, West Central Street, London, 1,V.C.1.
ASSOCIATION MIDLAND AREAS HOLD A.G.M.s.
THE annual general meeting of the West Bromwich Area of the C.M.U.A. was recently held when Mr.
E. Orton (W. J. Chatwin, Ltd.) was appointed chairman and Mr. C. E. Jordan (Accles and Pollock, Ltd.) KEEPING A CHECK ON CHEQUES
A DMITTEDLY, new cheques have /A been considerably reduced in size. but many people retain the habit of hoarding those old reminders of giveand-take for periods quite out of pro
portion to their value. _ It is estimated that millions of old cheques have been tucked away and forgotten in homes add offices, when they would be valuable as munitions and as a check upon Hitler. Therefore. dig them._ out ancl...gi.v.e them to the collectors or pulping mills. HORSEBOX PETROL—SPARE PARTS—OIL RECOVERY
A MONG topics of general transport 2-1.interest that came up in the House last week were the use of petrol for horseboxes attending race meetings, the scarcity of certain Morris-Commercial spares, and the reclamation of used lubricant.
Mr. Noel-Baker, in answering a question on the first, replied that the quantity thus consumed was negligible. Sir Andrew Duncan said that special action was being taken to provide parts for immobilized vehicles on essential work. Mr. Lloyd said that, since he last spoke on the stibject, further arrangements had been made for the 'collection of waste oil from garages.
LONDON DEALER'S NEW SERVICING FACILITIES
WE are advised by W. Harold Perry, Ltd., that it has acquired the entire premises at 364, High Road, Harrow Weald, formerly occupied by Ray Abbott, Ltd., and that the company is running this in addition to its depots at The Bridge, Wealdstone, and 13, Peterborough Road, Harrow. At these recently acquired premises the company is offering increased facilities for the repair and servicing of goods and passenger vehicles engaged on work of national importance.
SCOTTISH BUS WORKERS GET MORE MONEY
NEW agreement between the directors of the Scottish Motor 'Traction Co., Ltd., and subsidiary companies and the Transport and General Workers' Union was ratified at a conference of Union delegates, held last week. The agreement gives drivers and male conductors an advance of 4s.
a week, conductresses of 21 years of age and over 6s. 6d., and conductresses between IS and 21 years 7s. 6d. Members of the running-shed staffs of 15 years old and upwards receive a 4s. increase, women cleaners over 41 years 6s. 6d. and those from 18 to 21 5s.
The advances will benefit 7,500 S.M.T. employees and 500 in the service of Young's Paisley and District Bus Company. They bring the total war advances for a 48-hours' week up to 9s, fid. for yOuths, 12s. 6d. for those aged 18 to 21, and 15s. for other
grades. • HEAVY FINES FOR FUEL COUPON OFFENCES
HEAVY penalties have been inflicted upon the Liberty Engineering Co., which was charged with making falsA statements to obtain petrol coupons. ,The fine was the maximum of £100 on each of the two summonses, with £105 costs. The woman secretary was fined £20, whilst summonses against two directors were adjourned.
A haulage concern, Whittington Transport, Ltd., of Hendon, was convicted of accepting petrol coupons by transfer. The director and secretary, H. •J. Hulks, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment and a fine of £100 with £21 costs; the company was fined £20, B. G. Bohn was fined £20, and Winifred Hulks 40s. Notice of appeal was given.
DUNLOP'S £110,000 FOR LONDON WARSHIP WEEK
LONDON'S Warship Week, which opens next Saturddy, received a good start with a contribution of £110,000 from the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., this being apportioned amongst those boroughs in whicit the company has establishments,
DELIVERY POOLING GROWS IN SCOTLAND
FOLLOWING the lead given by 15 Glasgow retail departmental stores, which have pooled their delivery systems, three of the biggest Edinburgh stores have announced a similar scheme. They have divided the city into four areas and are delivering to each area on only one day of the week, leaving two blank days on which no deliveries will be made. The companies concerned state that the schedule of deliveries will be unaltered.
WESTERN AREA OF A.R.O. ARRANGES A.G.M.
THE annual general meeting of the Western Area of A.R.O. will be held at the Crown and Dove Hotel, Bridewell, Bristol, on March 30, 'at 2.15 p.m. The chair will be taken by Capt. J. W. Jones, R.M.A., who as well as being chairman of the Association has taken over the chairmanship of the Western Area owing to the resignation of Mr. George Smart, M.B.E., on his appointment as Divisional Road Haulage Officer for the . South-west Division tinder the Government haulage scheme.
Major H. E. Crawford, A.F.C., A.R.O. president, will give an address.
U.A.S. LOSES ITS STORES SUPERINTENDENT
WE regret 'to record the death of Mr. H. Baker, stores superintendent of United Automobile Services, Ltd., Darlington. He first entered the field of transport in 1907 with the
Bournemouth municipal tramways organization. He saw service with Westcliff Motor Services, Ltd., and was assistant general manager to the Belfast Omnibus Co. Ile then became associated 'with the London Public Omnibus Co., joining U.A.S. in 1929.