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is Vesting Day in Ulster
rrHE newly formed Ulster Transport Authority will take over the undertakings of the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board and the Belfast and County Down Railway on October 1.
The following appointments have been made:—Mr. J. A. Clarke, Minst.T., chief executive (finance) and secretary of the N.1.R.T.B., to be chief comptroller; Mr. J. Courtney, M.I.Mech.E., M.Inst.T., chief executive (engineering) of the N.I.R.T.B., to be chief engineer of the Authority; Mr. J. W. Hutton, M.Inst.T., manager of the R.E. (N.C.C.), to be chief traffic manager; Mr. A. Morrison, F.C.I.S., Minst.T., to be chief officer (special duties); Mr. T. B. Andison, F.C.I.S., M.Inst.T., to be secretary and registrar; Mr. J. G. T. Anderson, F.C.1.S., A.M.Inst.T., to be deputy secretary and registrar.
At the first meeting of the Authority, last week, Mr. D. Wilson Smyth, D.L., was elected vice-chairman. For the time being, the U.T.A. will operate from 10, Royal Avenue, Belfast. Our Belfast correspondent reports that the new Authority will start operations at a time when transport matters, particularly road transport, are very much in the public eye. A great deal of dissatisfaction has been openly expressed in recent weeks over increases in passenger and freight rates. Several meetings of protest have been held. At a meeting of the Northern Ireland Area Council of the National Chamber of Trade, in Lurgan, on September 15. Mr. L Little, secretary, produced a range of specimen fares in operation in England and compared them with fares charged over similar distances in Northern Ireland. The Ulster rates were much higher.
Mr. Little pointed out that in Great Britain the raising of fares was subject to prior sanction by a tribunal. In Northern Ireland the only tribunal was one to which appeals could be lodged after fares had been raised.
It is expected that one of the first tasks of the new Authority will be to issue an official statement on passenger and freight rates. NEW THORNYCROFT MODELS
nF the vehicles to be shown by Trans
port Equipment (Thornycroft), Ltd., at Earls Court, the Sturdy Two-Star machine and the Trident chassis arc new to the Thornycroft range. The Sturdy model, which is designed for a gross laden weight of 9 tons 9 cwt., is powered by a Thornycroft six-cylindered direct-injection•oil engine having a bore of 3.56 ins., with a 4.125-in. stroke.
A single-plate clutch, five-speed gearbox and a hypoid-bevel-driven rear axle are features of the specification. The gross-load weight given is with 9 by 20 tyres, but with 8.25 by 20 equipment the gross laden weight may be increased to 10 tons 4 cwt.
The Thornycroft Trident has a grossladen weight of '12 tons and is equipped with the new Thornycroft oil engine, developing 75 b.h.p. A single-plate clutch, five-speed gearbox and a hypoidbevel-driven rear axle also figure in its design, The wheelbase of both the Trusty and the Trident is 13 ft. 6 ins.
POSTS THAT MUST BE FILLED THE dependence of the Road Trans' port Executive on the support and goodwill of the transport industry was stressed by the secretary, Mr. G. W. Quick Smith, at the annual .dinner of the Transport Managers' Club (Midland Area), last week.
He said that there was an urgent need to perpetuate the virile spirit of the industry, and asked that politics should be forgotten when the right to make compulsory acquisitions came into force in October. He appealed for enthusiastic response to the advertisements for officers that were appearing, and added that there must be ready co-operation between all those engaged in transport, with increased efficiency as their goal.
OLD VEHICLES RAISE COSTS TRANSPORT costs are being
increased because traders were obliged to use old vehicles, said Mr. T. O. Morris, chairman of the West Midland Division of the Motor Agents' Association, at a dinner in Coventry, last week. All commodities were affected by the shortage of new vehicles. he said, and, in time, industrialists would be handicapped in their efforts to maintain exports.
Mr. Morris thought that it would be better to reduce exports of essential equipment for a few months, so that Britain might later gain the accrued advantages.
I. OF. T. ANNOUNCES AWARDS
A WARDS by the Institute of Trans port in respect of papers submitted during the 1947-48 session and the 1948 examinations have been announced. They include the following:—
British Transport Corhmission Awards: (1) £40 to Mr. Adkin Hull, M.B.E., Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway; (2) £40 to Mr. C. F. Klapper, Modern Transport "; (3) £10 to Mr. H. G. M. Viney, London Transport Executive; (4) £10 to Mr. J. Coward, British Railways (N.E. Region).
Road Transport (Passenger) Medal: Medal and monetary award to Mr. J. E.
Cowderoy, M.B.E., London Transport Executive.
The Institute 1944 Award: £15 to Mr. R. E. G. Brown, Traders' Road Transport Association.
Student Award: £10 to Mr. F. Campbell, Coventry Corporation.
"Modern Transport" Award:' f5 to Mr. T. H. Smart, Plymouth Corporation.
Associate Membership Examination Prizes: (1) £25 to Mr. A. McFarlin, Liverpool Corporation; (2) £15 to Mr.
E. H. Whittaker, Rawtenstall Corporation.
,Gra:cluateship Examination Prizes: (1) £20 to Mr. A. Campbell, Glasgow Corporation; (2) £10 to Mr. 0. C. Cochrane, British Overseas Airways, Malta.
LICENCE CONDITIONS BROKEN? A COMPLAINT of 'alleged violation of the conditions of a B licence was discussed at a meeting of Leeds sub-area of the National Association of F urn it ure Warehousemen and Removers. It was decided to consult a solicitor and to arrange to object to a licence application by the firm in question.
ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN LTHOUGH not exhibiting at the r Commercial Motor Show, Scottish Aviation, Ltd., Prestwick, will have a luxury coach and a service vehicle outside Earls Court for demonstration purposes. In addition to single-deckers, double-deck bodies, in which extensive use is made of light alloys, are built by the company. The system employed was described in "The Commercial Motor dated April 23. ARRAN APPEAL FAILS
AN appeal by Donald Robertson, of Blackwaterfoot, Island of Arran, against a decision of the Scottish Licensing Authority, was dismissed by the Appeal Tribunal in Glasgow on September 16.
In June, the Licensing Authority granted a licence to D. S. Bannatyne, of Blackwaterfoot, for haulage in that
area. The appellant's agent claimed that traffic was adequately catered for by Mr. Robertson, who had held the licence for several years..
Mr. Bannatyne's representative maintainec1 that there had been an increase in traffic since his client started business in the district and that, when he applied for a licence at first, he submitted the names of people who had pledged themselves to do business with him.
FOURTH "CENTURY" FOR A.E.C.
KIOTTINGHAM Corporation, which i recently ordered 112 A.E.C. Regent Mark III double-deckers, is the fourth municipality to place a contract for 100 or more of these vehicles. It represents the third repeat order for the Regent Mark III from Nottingham, which will, in due course, have more than 180 vehicles of this type in operation..
City of Oxford Motor Services, Ltd.. has ordered 48 similar vehicles, having already placed a contract for 20 in 1947.
AUSTIN CANADIAN WORKS
CCORDING to Mr. L P.. Lord, in, chairman of the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., 2,000,000 dollars are to be spent on equipment for the new Austin factory at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.