London-Munich Meat Haulage Soon
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-TWO left-hand-drive Atkinson eight1 wheelers, fitted with A.E.C. 11.3-litre oil engines, have been supplied to Oakleys London and Scottish Transport, Ltd., Wapping High Street, London, El.
BonaIlack refrigerated bodies, with Essex equipment, are being fitted, and the vehicles are to be employed on meat haulage between London and Munich. Germany, a payload of 12 tons being envisaged. The chassis are 8 ft. wide, have power steering and the cabs will have sleeping berths.
WHY FUEL PRICES CANNOT BE CUT
THE high cost of prospecting for new sources of oil was one of the main reasons why petrol and dery prices could not be reduced, said Mr. P. H. Look, lubricant supervisor for Shell-Mex and I3.P., Ltd., when he addressed the Preston branch of the Institute of Traffic Administration on Monday.
The company expected an increasing demand for at least 15 years, until nuclear power projects were completed.
Distribution points had been reduced from 440 in 1950 to the present level of 138, with a 'planned minimum of 96. There had been radical changes in the vehicle fleet. Fewer and bigger vehicles were employed, with the emphasis on 4,000-gal. tankers for main distribution. In 1948, the average capacity of the 2,600 Shell-14ex and B.P. vehicles was 1,400 gal. It was now nearly 2,000 gal., against 850 gal. before the war.
Their transport policy was to keep the oil water-borne as long as possible and to retain freedom of choice between carriage by road or rail, depending on cost.
GARAGE RATINGS CUT
ON appeal, the gross assessment of the Dudley garage of the .Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co.. Ltd., was this week reduced from £2.775 to £2,450, and lhe rateable value from £2,309 to £2,038.
Dudley valuation panel were told by Mr. D. G. Goode. for the company, that a fair assessment would be on the basis of garaging 42 buses each at 12s. a week, but Mr. D. H. Burn, local valuation officer, thought that El 5s. a week was proper.
OPERATORS NOT PROSECUTED "WHERE inquiries reveal that opera
VV tors are doing their best to comply with the law, they are not brought to court." This was stated before Tamworth magistrates on Tuesday by Mr. N. T. A. Matthews, for the West Midland Licensing Authority, who prosecuted drivers in a number of offences concerning drivers' hours and records.
LEEDS LOSES 7m. PASSENGERS
BETWEEN April and November, Leeds Transport Department carried 123m. people, compared with 130m. in the corresponding period of 1956, the transport committee were told on Monday,