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Top People's Paper
THE top people, it seems, get mention in other publications than the paper for Top People—in Applications and Decisions, for instance. I like this one from the latest As and Ds from the Western Traffic Area. Longford Management, Ltd., are applying for a three-tonner on B licence to carry timber and building materials on behalf of The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Radnor, The Viscount Cranborne, Major S. V. ChristieMiller, The Dowager Lady St. Just, The Hon. Peter PleydellBouverie, The Viscount Folkestone within a radius of 210 miles of operating centre.
A town job, obviously.
Clever Dodge
HHERE'S June bustin' out all over and I receive a note from Chrysler-Dodge concern about Christmas gifts. As if our summers weren't short enough. . . .
However, the Chrysler-Dodge story is a most praiseworthy one. They have solved what they call "the problem of embarrassment caused by the receipt of Christmas gifts from suppliers and customers" by getting the lucky recipients to contribute all gifts to a giant raffle staged at the employees' Sports and Social Club's annual Spring Ball.
Proceeds from this year's raffle totalled £150 and this sum was divided equally between the Cancer Research Fund and a special fund of the Kew Botanical Gardens. Charities, not necessarily the same ones each year, will continue to benefit.
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Non-static Hydrostatics
WHILST most progress so far with hydrostatic transmission TY systems seems to have been concerned with agricultural tractors, the desirability of this form of drive has for long appealed to transport men: infinitely variable speed control, simplified forward-reverse engagement and the abolition of a conventional transmission line are some of the advantages.
Well, hydraulic advocates can take heart. I hear that the design of a hydrostatic transmission. for public service vehicles is already in the advanced stage, although no actual parts have yet been made. I am not going. to give the game •away by saying who is doing this work, but the factory concerned is not in the South of England. rip celebrate their 50 years of trolleybus operation, Bradford City Transport on Tuesday combined the annual inspection the department with the celebrations. The transport :orrirriiitee travelled over the original route in two trolleybuses tainted in the former liveries of the undertaking. Tomorrow bunch of trolleybus enthusiasts are taking the same trip in he same two vehicles. An exhibition opened on Monday and vill last until July 1.
As a contribution to the celebrations, The Commercial Victor is this week publishing on pages 732-734 an article about he Bradford undertaking.
T wonder how much longer, though, Bradford will be able o continue? It is well known that the former general manager, Vir. C. T. Humpidge, relied largely on second-hand purchases 3ecause of the difficulty in getting new vehicles. I don't ,uppose the new manager, Mr. J. C. Wake, will find things any :asier.
Steamer News Wanted OLLOWING my reference a few weeks ago to the photograph sent to me showing the present chief of H. A. Scott ind Sons, the Barnstaple hauliers, as a small boy alongside, Foden steamer, I have had a request from Norwich foil nformation about steamers.
Mr. R, H. Clark. of 50 Mount Pleasant, Norwich, is seeking nformation about steamers made by the English Steam Wagon of Hebden Bridge, and Turner, Atherton and Co., of ganchester. He wants, he says, to compile some technical Jata about them.