78-seat Low-floor Bus for Glasgow
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1-1 A NEW Leyland double-deck bus with a particularly low floor and 78 seats, is to be placed in experimental service early next year by Glasgow Transport Department. Although the cost of the new bus, at £6,150, is £1,150 more than that of the current design, the capital cost per passenger is slightly less.
The transport committee, at their meeting on Monday, also accepted tenders for 10 B.U.T.'-Burlingham single-deck trolleybuses costing about £60,000.
NEW STANDARD FOR HANDLING GOODS
ANEW standard has been published by the British Standards Institution, 2 Park Street, London, W.1, concerned with handling instructions for nondangerous goods. The standard (B.S.2770, price 3s.) recommends the use of pictorial marks on containers. " Fragile—handle with care" is expressed by a wineglass, for example. Five other marks cover: "Use no hooks—do not puncture," "This way up," "Keep cool—stow away from boilers," "Sling here," and "Heavy weight this end." The marks are issued for use in this country, but it has been proposed that the International Organization for Standardization should study the subject to prepare recommendations for symbols for use throughout the world.
The Institution's annual report records a 4-per-cent increase in membership, now standing at 8,650.
DIRECTORY OF NORTHERN HAULIERS
A DIRECTORY of hauliers and r-i• transport services in the Northern Traffic Area has been published by the Northern Area of the Road Haulage Association, 8 Oxford Street, Newcastle upon Tyne,. 1. There is an alphabetical list of towns and villages with the names of hauliers in each place. Against each operator's name are indications of the types of vehicle owned and services provided, with notes of special facilities. Need for such a publication was felt during the railway strike last year, and it is hoped to revise the directory annually in future. The first number has been well supported by advertisers.
PYRENE TENDERS AT AIR SHOW
DESIGNED to meet the demands of large airfields in various parts of the world, particularly where difficult ground conditions prevail, Pyrene Mark 6 and 6T crash tenders are to be shown at the Farnborough air display from September 2-9.
The Mark 6 is based on an Alvis 6 x 6 chassis with four-wheel steering. It is built for use by the P oyal Air Force. The Mark 6T incorporates a Thornycroft Nubian 6 x 6 chassis. Another appliance to be seen will be the Mark 5A tender, also based on a Nubian chassis. This is a military type, but a civil version is available.
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Men in the News
SIR LEONARD LORD, chairman of the British Motor Corporation, Ltd., returned to duty on Monday after six weeks' rest on medical advice.
Ma. B. A. Riocerrs has been appointed manager of the Newcastle upon Tyne -branch of Thomson and Brown Brothers, Ltd., in succession to the late Mr. G. W. URWIN.
MR, R. E. SMITH, a director and general manager of Transport Vehicles (Daimler), Ltd., and a brother-in-law of Lady Docker, has -terminated his appointments by mutual agreement with the company.
Ma. A. ltvcaovr is to take up an advertising post with the British Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., and has resigned his position with H. Leverton and Co., Ltd., Spalding, as sales-promotion manager. He was previously publicity officer of Petters, Ltd.
MR. E. H. L. COOPER has become managing director of A. C. Morrison (Engineers), Ltd., and has relinquished his posts as works director and general manager of Henry Meadows, Ltd., another company in the Associated British Engineering Group.
TUNNEL TO BE USED AGAIN?
ASCHEME costing Om. to bring the Glasgow harbour tunnel back into use to relieve the city's traffic problem i3 being considered. Some years ago it had to be closed because of the condition of the lifts used to carry vehicles to street level. Mr, J. M. Riddet, master of works and city engineer, has suggested that there should he a spiral approach inside the shafts, which would need to be widened.
GOOD LIGHTING CUTS NIGHT ACCIDENTS
TO substantiate the claim that 1 modernization of electric street_ lighting reduces night-time accidents by 20 per cent., the British Electrical Development Association will give evidence of investigations carried out in various parts of the country on their stand at the conference of the Association of Public Lighting Engineers at Blackpool from September 18-21.
Since 1945, say the Association, night-time road accidents have doubled whereas day-time accidents have risen by half, yet where modern electric street lighting has been installed nighttime accidents have been reduced. At Cosely, near Bilston, there were 42 night-time accidents in the 12 months ended November, 1954, but after a new system of electric street lighting was installed on the Birmingham New Road the number fell to 19. • LITTLE-USED LICENCE RENEWED
WHEN Hall and Sons (Coal), Ltd., Macclesfield, successfully applied to the North Western Licensing Authority, on Tuesday, for a renewal of their B licence, it was explained that the licence had been used to only a small extent during the past two years.
Mr. J. A. Dunkerley said that the two chief executives of the company had been seriously ill and the haulage side of the business had been neglected. Work had now been promised by customers to keep the two liehicles concerned, one of them to be acquired, fully employed. It was stated that the business was over 100 years old.
Although there were no objectors, the Authority had called an inquiry.