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100 AMBULANCES IN WEST RIDING •JOINT SCHEME A FLEET of

25th July 1947, Page 31
25th July 1947
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more than 100 arribuLA lances, providing a free service, will operate in the West Riding of Yorkshire under a scheme which is being submitted to the Ministry of Health for approval The plan was adopted by West Riding County Council, last week.

Ambulance services at present managed by about 100 separateauthorities or organizations in the county council's area, which has a population of more than 1,500,000, will be co-ordinated. With headquarters at Wakefield, the area will be divided into eight divisions, among which will be distributed 37 sub-depots.

Irrespective of such boundaries, however, ambulances calls will go to the nearest or most convenient depot. Similarly, agreement has been reached with municipalities not in the West Riding county administrative area, such as Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Doncaster and Sheffield, on a mutual arrangement to answer emergency calls without regard to local government boundaries.

The service will be under the charge of a county ambulance officer, who will have an administrative staff of 14 and depot staffs totalling 474.

It is computed that in the county council's area there are over 100,000 ambulance calls in a year, involving well over 1,000,000 miles of running.

At the county council meeting, last week, it was stated that the Ministry of Health had been pressing for the scheme. It is expected the service will come into operation in July next year, and that the cost in the first nine months will be £174,750.

EFFORT TO IMPROVE FORD SERVICE

TO promote spare-parts service to operators, the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., has launched a series of "get-together" meetings for spare parts managers of Ford dealers. Meetings have already been held in London, Norwich, Nottingham, Plymouth, Bristol, Newcastle, and Harrogate. A meeting will also take place at Southsea on August 14, and

others v.111 be arranged in Birmingham, Southport, Belfast, and Edinburgh.

. The Ford concern stresses the point that only genuine Ford spare parts should be used, and states that every effort is made to ensure a fair distribution to dealers TESTING 20 TYRES AT ONCE

A CCORDING to Betro overseas ri intelligence service, Goodyear • Tire and Rubber Co. is experimenting with a new testing machine that measures wear on 20 tyre fabrics simultaneously. The machine will indicate in a few hours as much about a tyre fabric as could be learned in a 20,000-mile road test, the company has stated.

Miniature tyre sections are mounted on spindles, revolving at right angles.

FOUR-TO-ONE ODDS RLFUSED!

WHEN an applicant who started in Vv business with six horses in 1943 offered to give up four of them in exchange for a B licence for a vehicle at present operated under a C licence, Mr. A. Robertson, Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority, said: " Horses are valuable for bargaining only if the applicant had them before 1933."

MOTOR INDUSTRY STARVED OF STEEL

LAST week Sir Miles Thomas, president of the S.M.M.T., speaking at the Society's annual luncheon, said that the British motor industry was in danger of being planned into a straightjacket.

The allocation of steel during the second half of the year was less than 30 per cent, of what it was last autumn. This means that the industry cannot consistently reach the output attained then, let alone that of pre-war days, despite the fact that nearly 40 per cent. of commercial vehicles and 60 per cent. of cars are allocated for export. Yet steel output has risen since 1938 by 15 per cent., with the result that the steel used by the motor industry in relation to the national production is now only about half the pre-war percentage.

There are some six priority users ahead of the motor and engineering industries. Sir Miles suggested that lists of trades using raw materials, such as steel, stould be critically examined in the light of the part each plays in the battle for exports. A ton of steel allocated to capital re-equipment here will not bring any foreign exchange, whereas a similar weight released as vehicles can earn thousands of dollars.

MR. MORRISON RELIEVES IN PRIV A TE ENTERPRISE DELIEF. in time value of small busi

nesses was expressed by Mr. Herbert Morrison in London last week. He said that the Government was able to rim some industries, but must not assume that it tould operate all

After declaring that man could -not be happy if he were a mere robot; he said that to maintain the human touch in industry was a serious problem.


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