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American Truck-Bus A N interesting six-wheeled Supplements Rail truck-bus, developed by
Service the Kenworth Motor Truck • Corporation, is now in the service of the Northern 'Pacific Transport Co. at Billings, Montana. It carries 17 passengers and has a freight space measuring 18 ft. by 8 ft., the roof of the latter rising 2 ft. above the bus front: The power unit is a Hall Scott horizontal model. The vehicle resembles the B.O.A.C. coaches used in London, except that passengers are not carded over the luggage space, and the American vehicle is longer. It is employed to supplement a short rail service.
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TrEffic Blocks are THE parked Ncehicles, so
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Blockheads . . traffic blocks, are not always • driven by people ignorant of local by-laws. A reader in a Sussex town complains that two local bakers frequently park their delivery vans at the level-crossing gates on a busy road and strangers draw up close behind them expecting them to move off when the gates open. Thus a line of vehicles is held up because there is no room for them to reverse or swing round the offending van, and its driver is absent delivering bread to a row of cottages some little distance away. AN exhibition which graphically illustrates the British Transport Commission's report for 1948 has been staged at London Transport's Charing Cross Station, where it was opened recently by the Minister of Transport. Later, it will tour the country for staging at suitable sites. Mr. Barnes took the opportunity of saying that he welcomed criticism, and it was no good being "touchy." He referred to London Transport as being not the largest aspect of the B.T.C.'s activities, but the most concentrated. He mentioned the Commission as being the largest individual industrial organization in Britain, and probably the greatest single administration in the world. It had not come into being by a slow process of evolution, but by a political and constitutional Act, resulting from the circumstances of the war, for having brought many services under State control at that time, it would not have been easy to push them back again. Years ago it had been thought that resolving the railways into four large companies had solved the problem of railway finance, but the
An Exhibition De signed to Show B.T.C Progress
originators of this scheme had overlooked road competition. The B.T.C. had, he said, now gone a long way towards a solution. We must confess that as an exhibition it did not strike us as being very exciting, It is based mainly on models, graphs and maps.
If Road Transport WHILE talking with one of Returns to Private " the higher staff of the Enterprise . , . , British Transport Commission
at a meeting at which Sir Cyril
• Hurcomb introduced the Commission's first annual report to the trade and technical Press, a comment was made by us concerning the size and-content's of the production. The point was then raised as to what would happen if the process of nationalization had to be put into reverse after the General Election, and the staff man in question said that he hated to contemplate the size and complexity of the document that would have to be prepared as a preliminary to such an eventuality. The task would be even greater than the work already undertaken, but at least more would be known of the general picture of transport.