Objectors Told to Use Licences: Rebuff for Railways
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I N refusing an application by Messrs.
Jones's Motors, Ynysybwl, for permission to run excursions and tours, Mr. Glen George, South Wales (acting) Licensing Authority, last week, advised the objectors, Red and White Services. Ltd., and the Rhondda Transport Co., Ltd., to use more frequently their licences to operate excursions and tours from Ynysybwl. He told Mr. Jones that he could. make a fresh application in the future if warranted.
Mr. F. Ford, traffic manager of the Rhondda Transport Co., Ltd., admitted that his company held a licence for excursions and tours, but had not run them from the town since 1939, because of the shortage of fuel.
The town has 4,000 inhabitants and was described by the chairman of thelocal miners' lodge as a "dead-end • hole" with no facilities to enable miners, who now enjoyed a five-diy week, to get away for a day or two.
In another case before Mr. George, the British Railways opposed an application by the Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd., and the Rhondda Transport Co.. Ltd., for permission to increase thz frequency of their Ferndale-Cardiff services from an hour to half-an-hour on weekdays and Sundays. It was stated that the hourly service had been run for 20 years.
The bus fare was 2s. 8d., whereas the railway charged 5s. 8d., although it was stated that a day-return ticket costing 4s. 8d. had now been issued between Ferndale and Cardiff.
"Why should the public walk a mile to the railway station and pay 4s. 8d. to go to Cardiff, when they can pick up a bus practically on. their own doorstep for 2s. 8d? " asked the solicitor for the applicants. . .
Mr. Ford said, that up to five reliefs were being run on-each scheduled service, and during March of this year 509 reliefs were operated on 400 scheduled journeys. On Sundays, there were only four trains a day and many relief buses had to be run.
, After evidence had been heard from a number of supporters. Mr. George granted the application for increased frequency on weekdays, but thought that the proposed increase on Sundays should be the subject of a subsequent application, in which more evidence of need should be produced. REMOVE NEEDLESS OBSTACLES TO TRAFFIC, SAYS A.A.
A SURVEY was recently carried out 1–% by the Automobile Association on two two-mile stretches of main thoroughfare in the City of Westminster. It was found that there were 351 obstructions between Park Lane, and Lancaster Place, Strand, via Piccadilly, and 432 in the stretch from Chelsea Bridge, via Victoria Street and Whitehall, to Trafalgar Square.
A memorandum which has been drawn up by the A.A., urges Westminster City Council to take early action to reduce the number and variety of these obstructions. It comments on the plan for the development of the city and recognizes that many of the proposals are of an essentially long-term nature. At the same time, it stresses the belief that a number of improvements could now be made with the expendi • tithe of comparatively little labour and • material.
MIDLAND 1.0.T.A. MEETINGS
DIRMINGHAM centre of the instil-) tute of Traffic Administration has now completed its arrangements for the new session. Meetings of interest to road transport oPerators are as follows:—
October 6: "Traffic Administration." November 3: "Large-scale Administra
tion." January 5: "Maintenance and Upkeep of Road Vehicles.February 2: "Electric Battery Vehicles." March 2: "Personnel Management." They will all be held at Birrniogham Chamber of Commerce at 7 p.m.
Visits have been arranged to the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., on November 17, and to the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., in March.
The session opened with an address by Mr. C. Collins, chairman, on the growth of his company.
MANCHESTER MEETINGS FIXED ItflANCHESTER centre of the InSti'VI tote of Traffic Administration has issued its programme for the new session. Meetings will be held at the Grand Hotel, Manchester, at 7 p.m., and amongst. them are the following:— October 12: "Pneumatic Tyres for Commercial Vehicles"; December 14: "Goods-in-transit Insurance "; February 8: "Marketing Petroleum Products"; April 12: " The Science or Traffic Administration."
15 NEARS' STUDY OF WOOD BENDING THE Department of Scientific and Industrial Research believes that "Solid and Laminated Wood Bending." which has been published for the Department's Forms Products Research Laboratory, is the first .books to be written on the subject in Great Britain. It can be obtained from the Stationery Office at 5s.
The Forest Products Research Board has been studying wood bending for the past 15 years, and the authors have endeavoured to make the book fit the requirements of the, practical man. Most of the methods of bending described in the book have been tested at the laboratory The.section on solid bending contains five ohapters in which information is given on the selection and preparation of bending material, softening treatments, methods of making a large variety of shapes, and on the preservation of shape once a bend is made.
BIRMINGHAM WITHOUT TEARS
THOSE who find difficulty in crossing 1 Birmingham without losing their way will welcome a map folder which has just been produced by the Royal Automobile Club. It includes a largescale plan of Birmingham, indicating the ring road and the main exit roads. Various motor factories are marked on it.
There are also two large-scale plans of the city centre, showing parking places. one-way streets, etc. It is the first of a series of similar map folders which the R.A.C. is preparing for other large towns.
NATIVES TO USE TRACTORS
'TRAINING schools, whbre Africans 1 will learn to become skilled tractor operatives and help to develop huge tracts of land which at present have barely been touched by the plough, will be established early next year in Northern and Southern Rhodesia by a new company, Farm Mechanisation, Ltd. This concern is at present in process of formation, and will act as an agent for Harry Ferguson, Ltd.
LATEST MANAGEMENT IDEAS
rro keep business executives up to 1. date in the science of management, the British Institute of Management. 17, Hill Street, London, 'WI, is publishing, each month, Management Abstracts." The first issue has just appearcd. Copies cost 3s. each, and the annual subscription is el 10s. Abstracts are grouped under headings, including transport management.
HARTRIDGE WORKS CHANGES
IN future, the Buckingham factory of Leslie Hartridge, Ltd., will concentrate on increased production of oilengine test and mechanical service apparatus. As from October 1, the whole of the company's interest in electrical test equiprneht is being transferred to Crypton Equipment, Ltd., Bridgwater, Somerset.
SERCK CORNISH BRANCH
ABRANCH is shortly to be opened in Cornwall by Serck Radiators, Ltd., which has just acquired the business of Messrs. H. A. Jewel and Sons, St. Austell, There has been a close relationship between the two undertakings for many years.
SAFETY IDEAS WANTED
IDEAS from haulage drivers for the I promotion of road safety were invited by the Chief Constable of Hull (Mr. H. Lawrence), when he presented safedriving awards to employees of W.H.S. Transport, Ltd., a subsidiary of W. H. Smith and Son, Ltd.
Importers of spare parts `ricl electrical accessories. Messrs. Karkouty and Kaloust. Beirut, wish to establish business relations with manufacturers. SEVEN CHARGES AGAINST • DRIVER
A N unusual point arose at Birkenhead tA magistrates' court a few days ago, when a Wallasey driver answered seven summonses. They concerned driving a
• lorry without a licence, using the vehicle • without a third-party insurance certificate, failing to produce a certificate of • insurance, using fuel acquired by means other than the surrendering of coupons or other authority, having no Road Fund licence, failing to insert his name and address in the registration book and deliver it to the local authority, and not • having a carrier's licence, When the magistrates found one summons proved, the driver's legal representative asked that the remaining summonses be dealt with by a different bench, as they hinged on the fact that the lorry was being towed to test some bearings. Overruled, he then submitted that on summons should he dealt with by a jury.
The case was adjourned for one week for committal proceedings to be taken. The remaining summonses we re adjourned sine die.
EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY "THREE years ago, the Industrial Transport Association (London Branch), Albion House, 59, New Oxford Street, W.C.I, founded its Educational Society, and this season's lectures in connection with the education of students on subjects touching industrial transport will ,be held in the Kent Room, Caxton Hall, London, S.W.1, at 7 p.m., first Monday of each month. They are as follows:—October "The Importance of Transport Management in Industry," by C. Courtney Cramp, F.S.S.. M.Inst.T., M.I.R.T.E.,F.I.T.A. • November 1: "The Railways and Our Daily Life" (Illustrated). by D. Viaey, British Railways (Southern Region). December 6: " Operation of C' Licence Vehicles." by E. Young, M.I.T.A. January 3: " Road Transport Operation," by I. J. Short, A.I.T.A. February .7: "Some Elementary Aspects of Ship Operation," by Alan Lutterlock, General Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. March 7: " Modern Development in Automotive Lubrication " (Illustrated), by C. G. Tresidder, A.M.I.T.A., Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd.
REDEX OPENS NEW TRAINING SCHOOL
WWITH an exterior appearance akin to that of a super service station, the new trade training centre, factory and head offices of the Wayne V. Myers Co., Ltd., maker of Redex oil additive, were opened, this week, in the presence of the Mayor and Mayoress of Brentford and Chiswick.
Situated at 365, Chiswick High Road, London, W.4, the new premises are equipped with the latest test equipment. in order that trainees from the motor trade can be instructed in the Redex conversion scheme, which is stated to effect substantial economies in fuel consumption by increasing engine efficiency. Tuition will be free of charge. It is hoped that trainees from abroad will also take advantage of the scheme.