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Abnormal Loads : Good Notice Needed

23rd December 1955
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THE Licensing Authorities may be called upon to perform additional duties soon in connection with heavy indivisible loads and I hope that operators will give us good notice of their requirements."

Brigadier R. J. 0. Dowse made this comment during the hearing of an application for an A licence for a heavy tractor (71 tons) and separate trailer (7 tons) by John Sitbermann, Ltd.. London. N.W.2, Brigadier Dowse explained that one of the reasons for the proposed new regulations was to encourage manufacturers of heavy and indivisible items SO to design their products that they were kept within reasonable compass and weight limits.

The work for which the vehicle and trailer were required, said Mr. Ralph • Cropper, appearing for the applicant, . was the carriage of items weighing 12-30 tons. Some had to be towed on their own wheels. The tractor would h4ve to carry its own power winch. The application was granted.

SMALL INCREASE IN BUS FLEETS

THE small increase in Western European bus fleets during 1954 contrasted strongly with the progressive and rapid advance. in the numbers of private cars and motorcycles, and reflected the growing importance of private, as against public, passenger transport.

This observatiqn is made in the "1954 Bulletin of Transport Statistics for Europe" (European Office, United Nations. Patais de Nations. Geneva. 7S. 6d.). The book contains many tables and graphs relating to the traffic and equipment of Western European railways, road transport and inland waterways.

SPECIAL A LICENCES REFUSED TWO South Wales hauliers have been

refused special A licences by the South Wales Licensing Authority. An application by Grove Garages(Penarth), Ltd., Grove Terrace, Penarth, as in respect of five lorries (26+ tons). Mr. W. J.-Clayton, 16 Uplands, Rogerstone, sought a licence for a lorry weighing 31 tons unladen.

The West Midland Licensing Authority has refused to grant a special A licence for an articulated outfit (3 tons) to Messrs. Norris and Sons, 49 Lansdowne Road, Hartshilt, Stoke-on-Trent, who already Operate two ex-B.R.S. Vehicles.

SUDAN. ROAD ASSOCIATION L'OLLOWING a visit to the Sudan by the deputy chief executive and the aSsistant executive of the International Road Federation, a Sudan Road Association has been established. The chairman is Saycd Abdul Salam About Ela, of the About Ela Trading 'Co., and the secretary is Mr. Alex Kfouri, of the Buildmore Co.

Old Chassis: New Bodies

'Bradford already has 20 Leylands, the capacities of which have been increased from 56 to 59 seated passengers. Chas. H. Roe are at present working on 10 Daimlers.

Whilst most undertakings with trolleybus services are either digging in or converting them to motorbus operation, Bradford is expanding its facilities, A new route, extending for 1.1 miles, running between St. Enoch's. Road and the new Butterworth housing estate, is almost ready for use.

On the other side of the city, the Eccleshill route is to be extended a short distance to Fallis Square, and plans are being prepared for an extension of the Clayton service.

NEW LIGHTING-UP PROPOSAL

LIGHTING-UP time should extend from half an hour after sunset throughout the year. This suggestion has been put to the Minister of Transport by Kent .County Council, with the support of the highways committee of the County Council's Association,, in view of the high accident rate at dusk. It is .understood that the Minister has accepted the proposal in principle.

At present, lighting-up time begins half an' hour after sunset during the winter, but an hour after sunset in summer. 171 A POLICY of fitting new, largerCapacity bodies to existing chassis is being pursued by Bradford Transport Department. Last week, the undertaking took delivery of the first two of a batch of 30 trolleybuses which are being re-bodied.

Ten of the trolleybuses, all of them dating from 1939-42, are of A.E.C.English Electric manufacture, 10 are Sunbeams originally intended for Johannesburg, and the others are Karriers bought from Llanelly. The new bodies, constructed by East Lancashire Coachbuilders, Ltd., are 8 ft. wide and seat 63 passengers. The original bodies had a seating capacity of 56-58.


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