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The Lothians shale-oil areas will be visited by the delegates attending the conference on shale and cannel coal, to be held in Glasgow from June 6-11 by the Institution of Petroleum Technologists. Mr. Robert Crichton, general manager of Scottish Oils, Ltd., and Convenes of West Lothian, is chairman of the organizing committee.
Durban Wants Clinic Van.
Durban City Council, General Stores Department, is calling for tenders for the supply of a petrol-driven van, for use as a mobile diagnostic clinic. It is specified that the rating of the engine must not be less than 25 h.p, and the normal-control chassis must be of the low-loading type. The closing date for tenders is March 18. Fuller details may be obtained from the Department of Overseas Trade, 35, Old Queen Street, London, S.W.1.
Technical Film on Nickel Steels.
The Bureau of Information on Nickel (The Mond Nickel Co., Ltd.), Thames House, London, S.W.1, has produced a 16 mm. silent film entitled "Nickel Alloy Structural Steels." It indicates some of the numerous applications of nickel steels in the automobile, aircraft, marine engineering and other industries. The him is primarily for the use of engineering societies, which may obtain it free on request.
Could Neither Read Nor Write.
A surprising state of affairs was revealed at Plymouth Police Court last week, when a driver pleaded guilty to having failed to keep a current record. and declared that neither he nor any member of his family could read or write. A statement was also made that there is a number of operators and drivers of goods vehicles in the west country who are similarly ignorant.
Books "Must Travel Entirely by Road."
A carefully guarded steel van travelled by road from Cupar to Edinburgh last week with a collection of valuable books, which were insured for £35,000. The books were handed over to the National Library of Scotland as a memorial gift, and a condition of the removal was that the precious load must not use the Firth of Forth ferries, but must travel entirely by road MAO a reliable guard.
Scottish Driver-salesmen and Hours Regulations.
That driver-salesmen spent a comparatively small amount of time in actual driving was expressed by the Edinburgh and District Aerated Water Manufacturers' and Beer Bottlers' Defence Association, last week, on the question of the regulations relating to drivers' hours. Attention was drawn to the fact that it had now been decided in a case in the High Court, Edinburgh, that " driving " time under the regulations included all the time between starting and ceasing work. It was agreed that renewed efforts be made to get some modification of the regulations.
Air Ministry Buys Bendix Brakes.
Bendix Brakes, Ltd., King's Road, Tyseley, Birmingham; has recently received a large order for Bendix Cowdrey brakes for fitting to semitrailers. A contract for these has been placed by the Air Ministry with Taskers of Andover (1932), Ltd.
PERSONAL PARS.
MR. E. J. EVANS, of Guest, Keen, Williams, Ltd., Calcutta, who, during a three-months' stay in England, has been attached to the service department of British Timken, Ltd., at Birmingham, recently sailed for India.
SIR PERCIVAL PERRY, chairman of the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., whose elevation to the peerage was announced in the New Year's Honours List, has taken the title of Baron Perry of Stock Harvard, in Essex. He is also a director of the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., and past president of the Motor Trade Association. At his farms in Essex he takes a practical interest in advanced farming methods.
The appointment of Mr. J. L. GRIFFIN, Of Hull, as corporation traffic superintendent at Derby, in succession to Mr. S. G. DAVY, who is leaving for 'Walsall, has been recommended by Derby Omnibus Committee. Mr. GRIFFIN is at present assistant traffic Superintendent to Hull Corporation, and has had the supervision of 860 employees.
ME. FRANCIS E. Power.e, jurist., a director of the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd„ has been appointed general manager of the marine sales department of the Socony Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. He will leave shortly for New York, where he will direct the world-wide marine, roadtransport and railway business of the company. Since 1933 he has been responsible for the extensive marine business of the Vacuum concern in this country.
New Safety Measure on Kingston By-pass,
The Minister of Transport has given instructions for work to begin immediately on the building of a series of footbridges over the Kingston By-pass. The scheme represents the first instalment of a plan for making this busy arterial road safer for pedestrians. The footbridges will be temporary structures, consisting of wooden decks and steel frames, and will be designed so as to be easily erected or removed.
Loading and Unloading Restrictions Opposed.
Blackpool' s police proposal to prohibit the loading and unloading of vehicles in the centre of the town after 9 a.m. each day has aroused such opposition that it is almost certain to be modified, or withdrawn altogether. The latest objections to the proposal were lodged last week by a deputation of representatives of the Mansion IIouse Association on Transport, Federation of British Industries, Traders Co-ordinating Committee, and the C.M.U.A., which waited on Blackpool Corporation officials.
The meeting was arranged by Mr, H. Hardman, secretary of the Blackpool and District Road Haulage Association, which has already declared its opposition to the measure,