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Better Refuse Vehicles Wanted

22nd September 1950, Page 63
22nd September 1950
Page 63
Page 63, 22nd September 1950 — Better Refuse Vehicles Wanted
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

flA CALL to the Institute of Public Cleansing is to be made to-day to consider the question of the design of refuse collectors. In a paper to be read to the Institute's North-eastern centre at Harrogate, Mr. E. Dodsworth, M.R.S.I., M.S.I.A., A. M .Inst.P.C., Harrogate cleansing superintendent, asks whether makers, in their endeavour to place vehicles on the market, have forgotten that the main essentials of a refuse collector are simplicity, easy maintenance and reasonable length of life.

HE SHOULD KNOW!

THE former chief engineer thigh' ways) at the Ministry of Transport, Major H. E. Aldington, C.B., M.lnst. C.E., technical adviser of the British Road Federation, warns of the risk of road neglect.

He points out that the totally inadequate funds for the proper maintenance of roads are allowing the capital investment in the highways to depreciate alarmingly. Roads are an industrial setup, and in the economic interests of the community are a publicly owned asset which should be properly maintained and improved, he says. •

He adds that surfaces and foundations are deteriorating at an increasingly high rate. Now it is possible to resurface trunk, class I and class 2, roads at a rate of only once in 42 years, as compared with once in 19 years before the war. They are not so capable of carrying heavy military traffic as they were in 1939.

AC-SPHINX TO EXTEND FACTORY

FOR a long time the AC-Sphinx Spark Plug Co., Dunstable, has been suffering from growing congestion in its works, the sales volume having increased more than 50 per cent. since 1948. Now permission has been granted to add five bays to the main building, giving a further area of 68,000 sq. ft. This will permit a greater width of aisles to allow more use of fork-lift trucks and other handling devices, and enable the programme of mechanization on a basis of full flow production to go ahead.