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Close Coach-Air Link • with Isle of Man
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D EPRESENTATIVES of the Lanca
shire Aircraft Corporation, Ltd., and leading English and Scottish coach operators visited the Isle of Man, last week, to discuss with the Manx authorities coach-air link development in 1953. The scheme, pioneered in 1951 by Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., and the L.A.C., is to be extended this year and passengers will be brought to Blackpool airport by coach from many centres.
Typical period return fares from various cities are as follows: Birmingham, £5 2s. 9d.; Edinburgh, £5 12s. 10d.; Middlesbrough, £5 4s. 9d.; Cardiff, £6 6s. 3d. Sunday and Friday journeys cost 5s. 6d. extra and Saturday journeys an additional 14s.
SMITH'S LABORATORY ON TOUR
THE mobile laboratory of Smith's Motor Accessories, Ltd., Cricklewood Works, London, N.W.2, has started on a two-week tour in this country to test heating equipment which was modified as the result of last year's Continental trip. The vehicle is a Leyland Royal Tiger with a Duple Ambassador body.
Demonstration equipment includes heaters of the hot-water, hot-water and fresh-air, and fuel-burning types, demisters and defrosters, and H.M.V. radio and passenger-address systems.
NO WAITING THIS SIDE
UNILATERAL parking came into effect on Tuesday in 31 streets in London. The scheme is experimental and was advised by the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee. Goods vehicles are not allowed to load or unload on that side of the street on which waiting is not permitted,
although furniture removal vans, vehicles picking up and setting down passengers. fire engines and ambulances arc exempt from this provision.
B.R.F. WELCOMES STATEMENT
I—I A STATEMENT by the Minister for
Welsh Affairs that the Government recognizes the urgent need for improving roads in Wales arid those connecting the country with the Midlands, has been welcomed by the British Road Federation. The Minister gave this information in the House of Commons last week.
The B.R.F. has consistently urged that roads leading from Wales to London and the Midlands arc inadequate.
C.A.V.'s NEW SUDBURY WORKS
A NEW production plant has been opened in Sudbury, Suffolk, by C.A.V., Ltd.
It replaces older and much smaller premises in another part of the town which were first opened in December, 1944, as a war-time dispersal factory for the production of fuel-injection nozzles. The new factory will be used for (he same purpose to augment the output of the Acton and Rochester shops.
is28 By the end of the year, the production of nozzles will have increased tenfold since 1945, and the capacity of the new factory is to be doubled by extensions which are already scheduled, and for which the licence is now approved. Space is provided for the building to be extended without detracting from the efficiency of the simple ground-floor layout.
SWISS ARMY APPROVES AUSTIN 4 BY 4 PIV1L1ANS in Switzerland who buy Austin 1-ton four-wheel-drive lorries arc now granted a large reduction of import duty provided that they give the Army the right to control the vehicles and undertake to keep them in good condition. The Swiss military authorities and a civil commission approve the design of a vehicle after extensive tests and buyers receive a rebate of approximately 66i per cent. in import duty. The distributor of the Austin 1-tonner is Emil Frey, Zurich.
FOGLAMP USED ILLEGALLY
AT Hereford County Magistrates Court, recently, a driver of a heavy goods vehicle was fined 10s. for using, in clear weather, a foglamp fitted less than 2 ft. 2 ins, from the ground. Supt. K. C. Weaver said that if a foglamp was at less than this height it could be used only in fog or falling snow. The defendant's lamp was only 1 ft. from the ground.
STUDY OF SPEED DECISION
THE implications of the High Court decision that no speed limit applies to a goods vehicle when it is empty are being carefully studied by the Ministry of Transport, but no statement can yet be made. Mr. Gurney Braithwaite, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry, gave this information in the House of Commons on Monday.