SUPPORT FOR UNIVER$AL RATES IN SCOTLAND
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AT its apnual meeting in Aberdeen, IDA week, the Northern Area of the Scottish Commercial Motor users Association decided to adopt the proposal for universal road-transport rates for the whole of Scotland. Draft schedule of revised rates,, It was stated, will result in certain increased charges in the north.
Mr. D. A. Mortimer, secretary, in his report, stated it was understood that rationalization of retail deliveries had now been applied generally throughout the northern area, The Government's road-transport scheme had worked very well in the district
Mr. T. W. Watson, Dundee, was re-elected chairman, and Mr. J. G. Park, Aberdeen, vice-president. They were, with the following, appointed to the area committee:-Messrs. C. W. Meredith, Donald Kidd, E. Robertson, John M'Donald, and N. Horsburgh. Dundee; Lord Provost Nimmo and J G. Gilmour, Perth; A. Callander, Forfar; A. Stewart, Arbroath; T. Davidson, C. Alexander, J. C. Fiddes, N. F. Wisley and W. J. Melvin, Aberdeen; and G. C. Wilson, Peterhead.
FUEL FOR THOSE 10,000 GAS. ' PRODUCER VEHICLES
UNDER the Ministry of War Transport's plans for the conversion of road iiehicles to producer-gas operation, the scheme for the conversion of 10 per cent, of the vehicles run by transport concerns i# the North-Eastern Region will have Leeds, Sheffield and Hull as its first bases for the supply of generator fuel
. In a letter to those concerns in the Region who have been Selected to take part in the 'scheme, the Regional
Transport Commissioner, 'Major F. S. _Eastwood, says; "The Minister is confident that you will co-operate fully, in the realization that .it is of the highest importance that as many road. transport undertakings as possible shall acquire a knowledge of producer operation, in case circumstances should make it necessary to put a higher proportion of the country's fleets on to this method of propulsion."
Of the national total of 10,000 vehicles which the Ministry' has decided shall be. converted, statesthe Commis
• sidner, •2,500 will be public service • vehicles, 1,500 to 2,000 Government Department and Services vehicles, and between 5,500 and 6,000 goods vehicles. The plan.. will be carried out in "the shortest possible time." .
The main stock. of fuel will be largely. Government special anthracite, and will be distributed through a national net work of selected distributors.
MUNICIPAL' BUS RESULTS AT '• SALFORD
CALFORD Corporation returned a net 0.-I.profit -of£20,231 on its transport, undertaking in respect of the year ended .March 31, 1942.;. £20,000 was contributed in relief of the city rates. Bus receipts amounted to £611,184; which, is a considerable increase .on the previous year's: total; whilst .6,458,770 -miles were ..run and 74,631,946 pas sengers carried. . buses used 764,444 gallons of oil fuel and 42,234 gallons of pet1.ol. ,-The average•number of buses .in use per day. was 146..
. BUYS. CQMMERS
THE. Metropolitan. Water Board has accepted the . tender. of . C. G. Norman and Co. for the supply of six Cominer 3-ton tipping lorries,
TRANSPORT'S PART IN POST-WAR PLANNING
" FOR years we have been saying that every form of transport' should be left free to develop on its own lines and to serve the community in the way for which it is best siiited." said Mr. R. W. Sewill, director of A.R.O., at a meeting at Nottingham of the East Midland Area of the Association last week, when Mr: 'IV. G. Cooper, the area chairman, presided:: He continued by saying, " We have always insisted that after the war roads and road transport will have -a vital part to play in physical, planning and 'in assisting the ,recoVery of industry." He was led to make these Comthents in reference to the memorandum on post-, war planning and reconstruction, which. has recently been issued by the'Institu_ tion'of Municipal and County Engineers arid forwarded by it to the Ministry of Works and Planning. .. • Mr. Sewill then turned to the new 'Government Scheme for the control of long-distance road transport, . and pointed to the difficulty of giving a definite verdict on the proposals until they had been announced in full. He .found. difficulty in understanding
why econOmy in fuel and rubber--a laudable object in itself-could not have been achieved through the existing machinery. He referred to prO• posals placed, some months ago, before the Minister of War Transport by the Association, and stilt felt that, with certain minor modifications, these were the best so far devised for saving fuel and rubber, while keeping a virile road-transport industry ifi existence.' . On the following day, Mr: Sew ill spoke in. similar vein to members in the Western Area, when Mr. A. F. Wills, area chairman, presided.