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Proceedings at the Institute of Transport Congress.
Page 138
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IT was appropriate that the annual Congress of the Institute of Transport should this year be held at Liverpool, for it is just 30 years ago that the first trials of heavy self-propelled vehicles ,took place in the Mersey city. One of the interested observers of the experiments was Mr. J. A. , Brodie, P.P.Inst.C.E., Millech.E. (now the joint engineer to the Mersey Tunnel Committee), who in those far-off days detected in the primitive vehicles then submitted to endurance and reliability tests appliances that would revolntiouise the transport industry.
Mr. Brodie and three other transport .chiefs, each a specialist in a ,different Phase of the subject, contributed papers at Thursday and Friday sessions of Congress. Each of them shed interesting sidelights on some of the important, but less -Obvious, aspects of the inter'related problem of facilitating and accelerating the process of exchange.
From the point of view of commercial motor owners the paper by Mr. S. A. Brodie was of the greatest relevant interest. It was presented on Thursday morning after Mr. L. A. P. Warner, C.B.E., general manager of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, had initiated his auditors into the system of management and administration of the Mersey Dock Estate. Sir Norman Hilt on Friday morning spoke on " Ocean Transport in International Trade," and mentioned that the freights from London to Melbourne, a voyage of 11,900 miles, worked out, according to the class of cargo, at .05d. to .10d. per ton per mile, whilst freight from Melbourne to Adelaide, 500 miles, was .37d., and Melbourne to Port Pine, 700 miles, .65d.
As usual, arrangements were made for the delegates to see the principal local objects of interest. A series of visits to local factories and mills was arranged. A special train conveyed the Party on Thursday afternoon to the new Gladstone Dock, and the delegates were entertained by the proprietors of the
White Star Line to tea on the Atlantic liner " Cedric." Another party made a tour of the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Cammell, Laird and Co. The following day a fleet of motor vehicles took a number of the delegates to the new Edge Lane tramway works of the Liverpool Corporation. Another group of the delegates availed themselves of the alternative of inspecting the marshalling yard at Edge Hill of the London Midland and Scottish Railway. One of the most interesting works visits was that to Leyland Motors, Ltd. TAB delegates were met at Preston station by special motor vehicles which conveyed them to the works, where, after a tour of inspection, luncheon was provided by Leyland Motors, Ltd.
Mr. Brodie's paper on "A Survey of Liverpool's Road Traffic Requirements" was a complete eulogy for the motor wagon and for road transport, and we hope in our next issue to give a precis of it, as it contains much of interest to our readers.