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great advantages of carrying live cattle and sheep by road is that they arrive in excellent condition, for they are always under supervision and the time of travel is short. How different this can be when rail transport is used is shown by a ease in which some 40 sheep were consigned in one truck from a Government distributing centre in Norfolk to a slaughterhouse in Brighton. On their arrival it was found that three had died and others were so injured bit trampling that they had to be shot. A sanitary inspector certified seven of the nine carcases as unfit for human consumption. An inspection was also made by an official of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and it is understood that Brighton Corporation may take legal proceedings against the British Railway Execative, Southern Region.
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I.R.T.E. members will visit the works of Duple Motor Bodies, Ltd., at Hendon, at 2.30 p.m. on May 17.
Five hundred thousand pounds worth of bus and truck tyres has been ordered by Yugoslavia from the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.
Members of the North Eastern Centre of the I.R.T.E. wilt visit the works of the British Oxygen Co.. Leeds, at 7 p.m. on May 19.
A loss of £10,000 sustained by South Shields Transport undertaking is to be investigated by the transport committee, who will consider the possibility of increasing fares.
TECHNICAL OFFICERS REQUIRED FOR SERVICES
THE War Office is out of touch with many ex-officers who have changed their addresses since being released from the Army, but it would like to bring to their attention opportunities for them to join the Regular Army Reserve of Officers or the Army Officers Emergency Reserve.
Many released from the British and Indian Armies are required in Various technical corps. A leaflet, OFFR/ RES/1, giving full information and including an application form is available from the Under-Secretary of State, The War Office, London, S.W.I.
SUNBEAM TROLLEYBUSES IN SOUTH AFRICA
WITH reference to the letter entitled "A Transport Engineer's Experience in South Africa," published in our issue dated April 8, it has been pointed out that our correspondent, was in error in respect of certain trolleybus fleets to which he referred.
The vehicles of this type in Capetown are some 80 of Sunbeam make, which nu-mber will shortly be increased to 96. Durban will soon have 52 Sunbeams in service.