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"The wheels of wealth will be slowed by aft difficulties of transport at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the roughn as of the roads over which it runs."—John Beattie Crosier.
Automatic Traffic Signals for Coventry.
We are advised by the chief constable of Coventry that at an early date it is proposed to erect at the Junction of Holyhead Road, Queen Victoria Road, Spon Street and Fleet Street in that city, four vertical signals, each fitted with three lights for the purpose of controlling the traffic at that junction. A green light with the word "Go," an• amber light with the word " Caution " and a red light with the ward "Stop," controlled by an automatic timing device, will serve to meet traffic requirements in periods of from 40 seconds to 120 seconds.
After 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock at night the lights may be switched from automatic working to show a continuous amber-coloured light with the word "Caution." A bold, illustrated notice, about 100 yards before the crossing is reached, will draw attention to the presence of the signals and to their meaning.
Mr. -Hector, the chief constable, expresses the opinion that some such sys tem will have to be adopted throughout the country because the police authorities are faced with the problem of increase in traffic and the need for conserving man power.
A Private and Municipal Joint Bus Service.
A joint meeting of the Marsden, Slaithwaite and Linthwaite councils was held at Slaithwaite town hall a few days ago to consider the proposal for a joint motorbus gervice between Huddersfield and Marsden by the corporation and Joseph Hanson and SODS, Ltd. It was decided to recommend each council to agree to the proposal, whicb involves the purchase of the Blue and White service jointly by the corporation and the aforementioned comfam y.
Sleeper Coaches for Ireland.
It is stated that several Dublin bus companies have arranged to place sleeper coaches on the roads of . the Irish Free State by the beginning of next year. If this be done, it will be possible to travel from Cork, Galway or Mgr) to Dublin in the morning, transact business during the day, go to a theatre and return home the same night, .sleeping on the journey. Some of the -new, vehicles will accommodate 20 passengers mul will have cooking facilities and a lavatory.
Gas-producers and Heavy-oil Vehicles In Italy.
The Italian National Association for the Control of Combustibles, of Rome, has recently organized a prize competis tion for Italian-made producer-gas plants and heavy-oil vaporizers for use on motor lorries. The appliances which have been entered are to be submitted to a series of practical tests during the coming month A Dublin Bus Extension.
We learn that the existing s. fleet of the Contemptible Omnibus Co., Ltd.. B20 Dublin, is to be reinforced by a number of Guy 26-seater and 32-seater buses. These are to be used to extend not only the local services, but also to open up a number of new long-distance routes.
Growing Rubber for American Tyres.
The Goodyear Rubber Plantation Co. has applied for a licence to grow rubber trees and to harvest the product from them on the Island of Mindanao, South Philippines. The company has a capital of 6,000,000 dollars and is controlled by the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. of America.
By the existing laws, corporations in the Philippines can obtain pennission to acquire a maximum holding of 5,000 acres, but the Goodyear Co. is negotiating for the lease or purchase of a larger acreage.
Tilling and B.A.T. Dividend.
We are informed that the directors of Tillings and British Automobile Traction, Ltd., have decided to pay an interim dividend on the ordinary shares at the rate of 4 per cent. (less income tax) on account of the year ending December 31st next. Hitherto there has been no interim distribution.
In a Line or Two.
It is reported that the Bury Cooperative Society , has acquired the business of a concern known as the Central Carriage Co., Ltd., which operates funeral and other motor ser vices. This transaction involves the transfer of 14 motor vehicles and a number of hearses.
The Derby Co-operative Society has purchased -a Vietor electrically propelled van for use in connection with its bread-delivery system.
The Irish Omnibus Co., Ltd., has acquired ground for a new central garage to be situated in Dublin and to extend over an area of three acres. The premises will he equipped in a most upto-date manner.
We learn that the Ministry of Communications of the Egyptian Government is arranging • for the expenditure during the coming year of £25,000 for the purchase of motorcars and lorries.
Around Australia by Karrier Six-wheeler.
A few weeks ago we gave particulars of the MacRobertson Expedition which, at that time, was engaged in encircling the continent of Australia by the aid of two Kerner WOO-type rigid-frame six-wheelers, the personnel comprising 12 members under the command of Mr. W. Dunkerley.
We now learn that the five months' journey, during which period upwards of 10,000 miles have been covered, has been successfully accomplished, and a cablegram despatched by the maker's Melbourne agents on September 12th reads as follows :--" MacRobertson's Around Australia Expedition arrived to schedule time to-day. Great success." The fact that a journey of such magnitude has been accomplished for the first time by goods-carrying vehicles, and in particular that these should be British-built and of the sixwheeler type, is not without considerable -significance.
Details and photographs of the later stages of the journey are not yet to hand, but we have no doubt that they will be of considerahle interest.
Tariff Changes in Argentina.
A decree which came into effect on March 30th last specifies that tractors and tractor trucks, in order to be admitted into the Argentine duty free as tractors, must fulfil the following requirements :—Have the capacity to haul at a speed of 5 kiloms. per hour a total weight on wheels equal to 18 times the adherent weight on a graniteblock pavement ; possess an arrangement for connecting the truck to the trailer and have a suitable seat for the use of the driver.
This decree does not apply to machines shipped before April 15th.
Lucas Rear-view Mirrors.
Particulars of the . Lucas mirrors reached us too late tco be included in the article on rear-view mirrors in our previous issue. It is of interest to note, however, that Joseph Lucas, Ltd., Great King Street, Birmingham, produces a range of these fittings which is particularly suitable for commercial work, inasmuch as the tubular Girderscope bracket employed in most cases enables them easily to withstand heavy vibration. Types which should prove popular are those known as 160 and 160L, priced at 10s. 6d. and 15s. 6d. respectively, or at Us. 64. and 16s. 6d., if fully nickelplated. Both patterns lend themselves to easy adjustment and are provided with rectangular glasses of 61 ins. by 3t ins, dimensions, that of the 160 model being a convex type, and that of the 160L model being a ground mirror leos. An excellent range of interior mirrors is also made by this concern, this being priced from 10s. 6d. to. 16s. 6d. Many other suitable kinds are included in the Lucas products, amongst these being a number of circular types with sternly jointing and brackets.
A Windsor-London Coach Service.
A daily service by saloon coaches was started last Saturday between Windsor and London by a firm known as Spencer Park Coaches, of Windsor. There are three vehicles a day from London to Windsor and back to Lon don at stated times and fares. The first coach leaves the Windsor office, 47, High Street, at 11 am., the next at 5 p.m. and the last at 9 p.m., whilst the last saloon coach from London to Windsor leaves Vauxhall Bridge Road at 7 p.m.
The route followed is via Old 'Windsor, Staines and Richmond, and the fares are: single 2s. fid., return 4s. 6d., whilst on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays cheap returns at 2s. 9d. are issued.
A Tramways Exhibition at Essen.
A tramways exhibition was opened at Essen (Germany) last Friday. We are informed that 165 concerns, including 35 tramways companies, have exhibits there.
The German Commercial-vehicle Trade.
The total turnover of the German motor lorry industry shows an increase of about 45 per cent. The sales of fast delivery vans were doubled, but there was less demand for lorries of 4-ton capacity and over, their production and sale only slightly exceeding the average for 3927.
Albions in South Wales.
Quite a number of Albion vehicles are to be found. on service in South Wales districts, and three of them are shown in the accompanying group of illustrations. The van owned by the Swansea and District Collieries Rescue Association is built on a 30-cwt. subsidy-type chassis and carries rescue equipment, gas masks, oxygen cylinderS and a crew. It is stationed at Loughor
and is kept in readiness for any call which may be received from the colliery or the adjacent districts during the day or night.
The second picture shows a 3-ton platform lorry on super-cushion tyres, which is owned by James Strick and Sons, Ltd., a company of fruit and potato merchants. This concern owns four Albions, including a 2-tonner and a 3tonner, which were purchased before the war and which are still giving economical service. This concern has now standardized on Albion vehicles. The bodies of the rescue van and the lorry were both built by Jones, Clarke and Jenkins, Ltd., of Swansea.
The 30-60 h.p. 32-seater bus shown in the third picture is one of three Albions for Messrs. Lewis Bros.
British Imports and Exports of Agricultural Tractors.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has recently issued a statistical return of British motor imports and exports in which figures are given relative to agricultural tractors. It shows that, during the six months ending with last June, 822 such machines, valued at 190,751, were imported into this country as compared with 897 (£82,021) in the corresponding half of 1927. About 96 per cent. of the imports came from the United Stales. During the same period, 86 agricultural tractors at a value of £46,314 were exported from England as against 111 (£37,118) in the first half of 1927.
The Commencement of the Winter Session of the I.A.E.
• The opening meeting of the winter session of the Institution of Automobile Engineers will be held at the Royal Automobile Club on Tuesday, October 2nd, at 8 p.m., when Mr. Leslie H. Hounsfield, A.R.C.S., will deliver his presidential address entitled " The Integrity of the Technical Man." The address will be followed by a social gathering of members and friends.
Mr. Hounsfield's address will also be delivered before the provincial centres of the Institution on the following dates and at the places mentioned :— Bristol, on October 8th, at 6.45 p.m., at the Merchant Venturers' Technical School; Glasgow, at 7.30 p.m., on October 22nd, at the Royal Technical College ; Manchester. at 7 p.m., on October 24th, at the Engineers' Club, Albert Square; Midlands, at 7 p.m., on November 12th, at the Queen's Hotel, Birmingham.
Visitors may obtain cards of invitation on application to the secretary of the Institution at Watergate House, Adelphi, London, W.C.2.
Ireland's First Six-wheeled Bus.
The first six-wheeled motorbus to be used on Irish roads will, at the time of writing, shortly he delivered to Mr. T. Fitzpatrick, of Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow. The bus is a Guy with a sixeylindered engine, and its arrival is , awaited with considerable interest.
Blackpool to Reorganize its Transport.
The special central transport committee of the Blackpool Corporation which, during the past few months, has been conducting inquiries and investigations in towns where the central transport system is in operation, has lately reached a decision for the reorganization of the local municipal transport resources. The chief recommendations are :—That a central depot be provided for all vehicles belonging to the corporation (certain exceptions are named below) ; that a central repair shop also be established ; that a scheme for the central reception of tenders for supplies also be adopted. The third clause mentioned, if agreed to, will mean the combined or collective purchase, by competitive tenders, of the whole of the goods and materials required by the various corporation de partments. It is suggested that the new scheme shall come into operation on April 1st, 1929, the beginning of the next municipal year.
It is also proposed that a transport manager be appointed ; that the vehicles now in use by the various departments be transferred to the new transport department at an agreed valuation ; that the present sectional repair departments be discontinued, and suggestions are made regarding the adoption of a code of regulations and for the financial working of the scheme.
The vehicles of the corporation which will remain outside the scheme will be those used for fire-brigade purposes. on hospital services (including ambulances and infeetious-disease vehicles) and the corporation motorbuses and tramcars.
A.E.C. Suggestions for Body Decoration.
A useful folder has recently been issued by the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd„ of Southall, Middlesex, in which the company offers to supply, free of charge, to prospective customers, B22 coloured designs as. suggestions for the decoration of their lorry or van bodies, All that the customer has to do is to let the company know his wishes in the matter and to send all the necessary facts.
British Lorries Preferred.
Following closely upon the decision of the Government of New South Wales to use only British cars in future, news has reached the British Manufacturers' Section of the Society of lilotor Manufacturers and Traders, London, which shows that the growinn•' preference for British cars overseas is being rapidly extended to commercial vehicles, and particularly to the rigid
six-wheeler, in the evolution of which this country has been the pioneer.
We have already referred to the fact that a large fleet of these vehicles is owned by the South African Government Railways, which operate 4,000 miles of regular railway services, and we now learn that a substantial repeat order has just been placed.
Leeds New Bus Manager.
Mr. R. L. tiorsneli3, the manager of the Cardiff tramways and bus serviices, has been appointed general manager of the Leeds passenger transport organization. Mr. Horsfield, a past president of the Municipal Tramways and Transport Association, went to •Cardiff in 1920, and at once proceeded to inaugurate a municipal bus fleet, which has grown to SO vehicles in seven years.,
A Dundee Body Works.
Motor-coach bodybuilding has been started in Dundee by Messrs. Dickson Bros., in Clepington Road. Two motorbuses have recently been com,pleted and several orders are in hand, including an all-weather coach with detachable roof for use on long-distance work.
Seventh National Cost Conference.
The Seventh National Cost Conference of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants will be held at the Queen's Hotel, Birmingham, on Friday. September 28th. At the morning seeaim', which commences at 10.30, Mr. Alexander Ramsay (chairman of the Birmingham and District Engineering and Allied Trades Employers' Association), will preside, whilst at the afternoon session, commencing at 2.30; Sir Holberry IVIeiasforth, K.C.B., C.B.E., will be in the chair.
The attendance of directors of concerns, managers, executives, cost itc
countants and other responsible works officials is cordially invited.
The annual dinner of the Institute will take place at 7.15 p.m. on the same day at the Queen's Hotel, Birmingham, when the, guest will be . the Rt. Hon. Lord Askwith, K.C.B., K.C.
High-pressure Air Compressors for Munieipalities.
The Equipment and Engineering Co., Ltd., 2 and 3, Norfolk Street. Strand, London, W.C., has just received orders for Luchard high-pressure air compressors for the inflation of giant pneumatic tyres from the corporation motorbus departments of Accrington, Doncaster and Perth, whilst Oldham corporation has placed an order for a Hammond petrol-storage system for use in its bus garage.
A Bus Station for Castle Donnington.
Following the enquiry and report of the police into the case of the Tamworth and Harrington turnpike roads, Messrs. Offier and Co. have solved a difficult problem for the local authorities by purchasing a fine site for a bus station, for which arrangements will he made so soon as the buildings. at present there can be cleared.
A Stockton User's Motor Display.
The Stockton Co-operative Society recently organized a procession in which 26 of its motor vehicles took part. Prizes were given for the best-kept heavy vehicles and motorvans, and the enthusiasm of the drivers was so keen that the judges had great difficulty in placing the awards. Other tokens were awarded to the society's departments showing the best advertising displays mounted on the various vehicles. Six miles of route were traversed by the procession, in which the local public took great interest, and to contrast modern and old methods of transport a horse-drawn stage coach, complete with a guard and his "yard of tin," headed the vehicles, followed by one of the society's latest pneumatic-tyred Daimler saloon coaches used for privatehire work. A E C. and Daimler vehicles were prominent in the display. • • A New Motor Works at Folkestone.
Martin Walter, Ltd., 62, 64, 66, Sandgate Road, Folkestone, has just completed a most extensive coachbuilding and motor-engineering works and service garage at the above address. This will be officially opened to-morrow (Wednesday) by Sir Philip Sassoon, Bart., M.P.
The building Covers an area of over 45,000 square feet and over 150 men are employed. It is laid out and equipped on the latest lines for the work which is to he undertaken and should do much to promote the general efficiency of road transport in the area concerned.
On Order for the Albatross Service.
With regard to the mention of the Albatross sleeper service in our previous issue, the new sleeper coach on order for Albatross Roadways, Ltd., should have been described as incorporating a Daimler model-C.F.6 chassis, and not as stated.
An Explanation of Lubrication.
We have received from C. •C. Wakefield and Co., Ltd.,, Wakefield House, 30-32, Cheapside, London, E,C., a copy of its brochure entitled "Motor Lubrication Simply Explained," and although this deals chiefly with private cars it is so well illustrated and so much of the information can be applied to the commercial vehicle, that we think it will interest many of our readers. A copy will be sent on application to the company.
A Successful Year for Aberdeen's Buses.
The report of the City of Aberdeen Tramways Department makes very interesting reading, and apart from the fact that the report itself is excellently compiled and well illustrated, we note the significant fact that the illustrations are all concerned with the bus fleet. The revenue earned by the combined tramways and motorbus undertakings constitutes a record, amounting to £219,022 for the year ending May, 31st, 1028, compared with 1195,468 for the previons year, an increase of £23,554, this, however, being largely accounted for by the elimination of a large number of privately owned buses previously plying for hire entirely in the city and in opposition to the tramways undertaking.
The total revenue derived from the buses was £65,755, and the working expenses were /49,521, the gross profit being £16,234, which, after the deduction of interest, sinking fund, income tax and special expenditure of /5,205, leaves a balance of £11,028 to be carded forward to the depreciation and renewals account. The actual revenue increase for the year was 27.79 per cent., and the working expenses increased by only 13.17 per cent.
During the year a sum of £14,856 has been appropriated from the renewals account for the purchase of ear equipment and motorbuses. A capital expenditure of £13,257 was also made for the construction of a garage in Canal Road and workshops at King Street.
Nearly 13,500,000 people were carried on the buses during the year. The average amount paid in fares per head of the population was 28s. lid., against 24s. 3d. for the year before. The buses ran 1,598,758 miles, an increase of 21.10 per cent. No alterations in fares were made during the year.
The vehicle fleet comprises 44 motorbuses and seven motor coaches. All the department's motor vehicles) are now cleaned and overhauled at a central garage, and this has been found to give satisfactory economy. The garage is capable of holdine•' 70 vehicles, whilst room is available for extensions to accommodate a further 50 vehicles.
A Special Thornyeroft for Carrying Coal.
All illustration on this page shows a special Thornycroft type-P13 lorry with a body built by Messrs. Challands, Ross and Co., to the order of the Stanton Iron Works Co.
The body is divided into four separate compartments, each holding a ton of coal, and the floor is so arranged that unloading of the individual compartments is by gravity when the side doors are released. Immediately behind the cab is a handle for releasing the adjacent door.
Municipal Purchases and Proposals.
The SWINDON Corporation Tramways Committee recommends the purchase of three Leyland motorbuses.
The PORTLAND Urban District Council has made arrangements for tests with street-sweeping and water-sprinkling motors.
BryTer Licensing Committee has refused to grant a licence to Messrs. J.. Kane for a service between Blyth and Morpeth.
SOUTHPORT Corporation is seeking sanction for a loan of £1,679 for the purchase of a Motor lorry and two trailers for refuse collection.
It is reported that the SOUTHPORT Corporation has accepted the tender of the Vulean Manufacturing Co., Ltd., for the supply of two motorbuses.
SWANSEA Corporation has arranged with Shelvoke and Drewry, Ltd., of Letchworth-, for a fortnight's trial, at a cast of £15, with a low-loading refusecollector. •
Permission to operate a daily service between Weymouth and Torquay has been given to the National Omnibus and Transport Co., Ltd., by tlx WermouTn Watch Committee.
The application of Messrs. Turner and Sons, of Grangetown, for permission to run a service from Redcar to Middlesbrough has been granted by the ESTON "Urban District Council.
In connection with the proposal of the PENRITH Urban District Council to purchase a motor vehicle for refusecollection, a committee has been asked to inspect machines at Carlisle and Hexham. . • ' It is reported that 12 Leyland double. decked buses, costing £1,800 each, are to be added to the 1•VaLt..Assy Corporation's present fleet.
MRIEENHEAD Corporation has now appointed a committee to negotiate with the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board with a view to removing the charge now made for pedestrians and vehicles when crossing between • Birkenhead and -Wallasey over the toll bridge in the north end of the town. The Municipal Bus Fleet of Glasgow.
At the head of the first page of our Passenger Travel News contained in our issue for September 11th we reproduced a photograph of a number of Leyland Titan covered-top-deck buses ready for delivery to the Corporation of Glasgow. We did not, however, have space to utilize more than a caption under the illustration.
We would now add that the vehicles form part of the large repeat order for 100 vehicles of this type with which the company was recently favoured.
Each body seats 51 passengers and is of the patented pattern which gives ample gangway space with a greatly
reduced overall height. By the offsetting of the rear axle on the Titan chassis, the floor level has been reduced to only 1 ft. 10 ins, from the ground, the platform being correspondingly low to provide an easy entrance. The colour scheme employed on these vehicles is somewhat original, being in straw yellow and pale green; with the lettering on the aides in silver High-speed Oil Engines.
Few of those concerned in the industry know that William Beardmore and Co., Ltd., after a long period of development work, produced a satisfactory Diesel engine for aircraft This information, however, has not been made generally known, but was referred to in a paper read recently before the British Association.
The particular engine referred to is of a type specially constructed for airships. It has eight cylinders in line on monobloe crankcase, the cylinders being of 81-in, bore and 12-in, stroke, the weight being 4,600 lb. with steel castings and 3,600 lb. where altuninium is employed. The power developed is 65 b.h.p. at 1,000 r.p.m.
Nottingham's New Depot.
A great increase in road traffic and the necessity for concentration of rolliug, stock at a central depot have led to the erection at Nottingham of a capacious station, which is to be opened shortly in the Carter Gate district of the city, where the municipal trams and buses will be housed.
The building' erected on land from which a great deal of insanitary property has been removed, has been designed upon lines admirably adapted to meet the requirements of a continuously expandiag service, of which motorbuses, which have been for some time accommodated there, now constitute a large part. Consequent upon the opening of the new centre, the older depot, contiguous to the River Trent, is to be utilized for repair work.
Chains for All Purposes.
We have received from Hans Renold, Ltd., Burnage Works, Diclsbury. Manchester, a copy of its new price list for 1928-1929. This deals with all types of chain manufactured by the company, of which, of course, the bush-roller and inverted-tooth silent chains are those which will chiefly interest our readers. Prices have been considerably reduced.
Insurance for Commercial Vehicles. For some time past Premier Motor Policies, Ltd., Glebe House, King William Street, London, E.C.4, has specialized in insurance for commercial B24 vehiclet\ and one of the arrangements which is proving popular with users is a cumulative non-claim bonus on the policies, this being 10 per cent. for the first year, 15 per cent. for the second and 20 per cent, for the third year. The great advantage is that it gives the owner of a well-run vehicle a chance of securing a steady reduction of his premium.
More Midland Limited-stop. Services.
On Monday, September 10th, the Midland Red Co. inaugurated new limited-stop services between Birmingham and Nottingham, via Tamworth. These buses leave Birmingham each day at 8.45 a.m., 11.45 a.m., 2.45 p.m. and 5.45 p.m., and Nottingham at 11.15 am., 2.15 p.m., 3.15 p.m. and 8.15 p.m., the return fare being 7s. 6d. Improvements have also been made in the services between Birmingham and Leicester, through buses now running between Birmingham and Loughborough, via Sutton, Tamworth and Ashby, at a return fare of 7s.
Philippine Goods Transport., The importance of the lorry in Philippine commerce and industry is " evidenced by the fact that, according to a recent return, there were 5,457 vehicles of this class in use in the various islands at the end of 1927, of which 2,118 were employed in the city of Manila alone. The Manila district naturally is the greatest lorry user in these islands, as some 87 per cent, of all Philippine imports and 55 per cent. of the area's exports are dealt with there.' Next in importance, with just over 300' lorries, is the island of Cebu, which exports large quantities of copra, hemp and maguey from the port of Cebu, and which has to rely solely on road vehicles for carrying goods from the interior. The Island of Negros follows, With about 300 lorries, but, unlike Cebu, the greater number of these (some 230) is privately owned. Motorbuses Win in South Germany.
A somewhat stormy meeting between the municipal authorities of Wiesbaden and the South of Germany Railway Co. has led to the authorities deciding to adhere to their intention to annul the tramway contract next March and to institute motorbus services. The tramway representatives have threatened to take the matter to the Rhineland High Commission, but it is doubtful if this Commission will take any action. The threat actually served to Stiffen the attitude of the town authorities, who consider the matter in their province.
A New Maker for Bostoek and Bramley Worm Gearing.
We are informed by Bostock and Bramley, Ltd., that the company has entered into a close working agreement with Craven Bros. (Manchester), Ltd., whereby the manufacture of the wellknown Bostock and Bramley gearing will, in future, be carried out at the latter company:5 Vauxhall Works, Reddish, Stocknort.
The obligations of Joshua Bucktor and Co., Ltd., in respect to this gearing have been assumed by the new maker. A special self-contained building has been set apart for the work. The new adflress will conSequently be : Bostoek and Brinnley, Ltd., Vauxhall Works, Reddish Road, Reddish, Stockport.
Publicity by Sound Pictures.
It is quite possible that the future will see a big extension of publicity by the employment of pictures accompanied by appropriate sounds. In this connection Captain J. C. Atkinson, who, for a number of years has taken an active part in the organization of Graham Amplion, Ltd., especially as manager of the Amplion Public Speech and Service departments, has been appointed sales manager of British Phototone, Ltd., Dorland House, 14, Regent Street, London, S.W.1.