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TRANSPORT ENGINEERS' LUNCHEON-CONFERENCE TO-DAY, at the Connaught Rooms, 1 Great Queen Street, London, W.C.2, is being held "The Commercial-Motor" Road Transport Engineers' Luncheon, Conference, at which it is hoped to appoint the committee which will prepare the memorandum and articles of association of the proposed Institute of . Road Transport Engineers. It will be attended by 200 prospective members, representatives • of manufacturers, etc. A report of the proceedings will be included in our next issue.
HAULAGE SCHEME TO COVER OUTCROP-COAL TRANSPORT TRANSPORT of outcrop coal from 1 Government open-cast workings in Yorkshire to the points where it is 'sorted by screening, and then loaded for distribution to consumers, will come under the aegis of the M.O.W.T.. Road Haulage Organization from May 1. The haulage operators' pools which provide lorries for this work, under the scheme ` which the North-East Regional Transport Commissioner, MagaF S. EastWood, arranged with operators, will continue to do so, but instead of receiving payment from the Ministry of Fuel • and Power, the hauliers will be paid by the M.O.W.T. It is understood that payment will not be on the R.H.O.'s general terms, but on a tonnage basis, as hitherto. '
The road haulage of the coal frorwthe -screening points to the consumers will not come ander the Road Haulage Organization. The pool will continue to undertake this work by direct arrangement with coal distributors, except where the distributor employs his own vehicles.
As the existing, pools serve outcropcoal workings in Mid-Yorkshire and South Yorkshire, the outcrop coal produced in West Yorkshire has sofar been transported from the workings either by hauliers working independently or by distributors' own motor vehicles. A move to form a pool for the haulage of West Yorkshire outcrop coal is now being made, however.. Presumably it would work for the M,O.W.T. on the same -basis as the existing pools.
MR. A. E. SEWELL ON POST-WAR TRANSPORT
A T a meeting of the Road and Rail ,tACentral Conference on April 20, Mr. A. E. Sewell (rail chairman) said that those on the railway side welcomed the -bringing into being of ,the new National Road' Transport Federation with its three Associations, because they felt that the post-war transport problem is becoming increasingly urgent, and that ,if 'there he not a strong -road organization with full powers to negotiate with other transport interests or the Minister of War Transport, it may be impossible
to devise any scheme, within the framework of private ownership, for co-ordinating all forms of transport, or for ensuring that the whole Nation, from the largest city to the smallest and most' remote farmhouse, will obtain regular and, reliable transport at a fair cost. All in the room agreed, and he was confident that the sentiment is shared, apart from very minor • exceptions, by railway men, road hauliers and traders 'throughout the country, that it is in the interests of no one that, after the war, we should revert to the state of affairs of 1938-59.
There are only two foundations upon which we can build to avoid this. The first, which he would brush aside, is allocation solely 'upon an _arbitrary functional basis. He did not believe that public opinion or Parliament would ever allow the country or the traffics to be divided in respect of this, and for anyone to say this is the business of road and that of rail.
The only other foundation, therefore; is agreement as to rates and charges, leaving competition—which there must be and which he believed the country would insist upon—largely to the .realm of service.
He was convinced that the Government will not tolerat6 haphazard road services or scales of charges, but will require road transport to take its part in a national scheme to work alongside rail, canal and coastwise shipping, ready to give service to all without favour or discrimination.
A.E.C. AND DENNIS INTERIM DIVIDENDS I N respect of the current year, the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., announces the declaration of an interim dividend at the rate of 6d. per El unit of stock, free of tax.
AN interim dividend of '4d. per Is 'share, less tax, is announced by Dennis Bros., .Ltd. This distribution is at the same rate as for the previous year.
NEW " C.M." INDEX READY
rOFIES of the index to Volume 78 of
" The Commercial Motor," covering the issues from August 6, 1943, to January 28, 1944, are now available, price 7d. each (post included), and can be obtained from Temple Press Ltd., Bowling Green Lane, London, E.C.1.
MR..BOYD BOWMAN'S POSITION WITH NEW ASSOCIATION I N our reference last week to the launching of the National Association crf Inland Warehouse Keepers we mentioned. Mr. Boyd Bowman as being the secretary. Actually, we should have said that he is the temporary honorary secretary.
SAVE MORE PAPER FOR THE ' SECOND. FRONT Fri-1g .huge amount of shipping 1 required for the Second Front means that paper mist be conserved even more rigorously than ever. Therefiire,send every possible piece ler salvage. DEATHS OF LEADING TRADE PERSONALITIES By the passing on April 22 of Mi. FREDERICK R. SIMMS, M.I.M.E., etc., the motor industry has lost one of its earliest and most versatile pioneers. Born in Hamburg in 1863, but of English descent; and brought up on the Continent, where he _was a friend of Gotlieb Daimler, he came to this country, and in 1893 founded the Daimler Motof Syndicate; Ltd." to sell cars' of this make in the United Kingdom and the Empire. In 1896 he assisted in the formation of the Daimler Motor Co., Ltd., becoming the first consulting engineer to it, also acting as consulting engineer to other leading motor companies between 1895 and 1900. It was he who persuaded Messrs, Carless, Capel and Leonard, the oil distillers, to produce motor fuel of lows. gr., to which he gave the name "petrol." Ile also, in the same yeai, 1896, coined the term " motor car." In conjunction with Sir David Salomons, Lord Derby, and Mr. E. S.Shrapnell-Smith, he formed the Liverpool Self-Propelled Traffic Association, which held extensive trials of commercial. vehicles in 1898. He was the founder of the Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland *(now tht R./VC.), also of the S.M.M. and T., of which he was the first president. As regards the commercial-transport field, he specified and -designed, in '1898, a lorry chassis for Milnes-Daimler, Ltd., London. Many of the war vehicles of Vickers, Son and Maxim, Ltd., ' between ., 1898 and 1900, were designed by him, these including an armoured vehicle with two pompoms in turrets and two Maxim guns. He patented a track-type motor plough in 1902, vehicle buffers in 1906, and was 'the originator and co-Patentee of the Simms-Bosch magneto. Of paAicular interest is the fact that in 1915 he offered td the War Office what he called a Motorpedo, which was an electrically operated armoured explosive conveyor on traeks, which could be steered from a distance by cable or wireless and burst at will.
We record with deep regret the death Of _MR. J. T. BROCKLIOUSE, J.P.chairman and managing director of J. Brockhouse and Co., Ltd., West Bvmwich, which occurred when he was" attending a meeting of the management committee of the S.M.M. and T. last week. He was born in 1879 and had a numbeillbf successful years in banking before he entered • the Brockhouse family business as director and secretary, later assuming the managingdirectorship on the death of his father in 1922. • He carried on the traditions of sound expansion ,and progress laid by his father, and after a few years of consolidation, a programme of expansion began which ' embraced the acquisition of -some. well-established concerns.
We regret to learn of the death of BRIGADIER-GENERAL W. B. CADDELL, a director of Alexander Duckham and Co., Ltd., and of Trinidad Central Oilfields, Ltd. He was well knOwn in aviation circles and was a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. EAST MIDLAND AREA OF R.H.A. GETS UNDER WAY •
IN connection with the merging of the seven national road-transport associations into -the new Road Haulage Association, rapid strides axe being made in the East Midland Area. Already an area conference of the constituent associations has been held, and the following representa,tives have been elected to the first area committee:— Messrs. E. Northfold and J. W. Ward (nominated by Leicester and District Transport Associationl; . Messrs. W. Forman and A. Jennings (nominated by Lincolnshire Transport Association); Messrs, W. J.. A. Peck and F. Platte (nominated by National Conference of Express Carriers); Messrs. B. J. Bagshaw, J. E. Barney. FL Clifton], II. Dickens, W. G. Eales; G. H. Alma, W. Latham, O.B.E. (nominated by East, Midland Division, C.M.D.A.); Messrs, B. A. Cooper, W. G. Cooper, A. W. Darby, G. V. Dennis, D. Derham, „T. W. Goy, R. W. Beech, W. MUgs, J. J.McVeigh, J. T. Pepper, II. Rossingtan, H. Sutcliffe (nominated by East Midland Area, A.R.0.1; 'Messrs. C. Chettin and W. A. Jordan (nominated by the Nottingham Sod Notts Transport Association).
This area committee held its first meeting a few days ago, when Mr. W. G. Cooper was elected first area chairnian of the new organization, whilst Mr. W. Latham, .0.B.E., was elected vice-chairman, Other appointments included Mr. W. G. E. Dyer as area secretary and Mr. E. 0. Gray as area financial adviser. • PROPOSALS FOR MOTORWAYS
BEFORE BRADFORD CHAMBER ' DROODSALS submitted by the British Road Federation for the post-War construction of motorways in Great Britain were considered last week by the transport committee of Bradford Chamber of Commerce. The Federation urged that the construction of such roads, exclusively for the use of motor 4 traffic, would stimulate trade by affording facilities for faster and, therefore, more economical transport. The corn-, mittee came to a decision on the sub, ject, but its nature was not .disclosed pending its confirmation or otherwise by the Council of the Chamber.
BUS AND TRAM SERVICES MUST BE COMPLEMENTARY
LEEDS post-war passenger-transport Ls problems and suggestions for meeting them were discussed htst week by thecouncil's reconstruction committee, .when a report on the subject by Mr. Vane Morlaud, general manager and chief engineer of the passenger transport department, was submitted. The report emphasized that the bus' and tram. services must be complementary.
For co-ordination of the city's postwar developments, the suggestions put forWard by Mr. Morland will be studied in relation to schemes for road construction; the provision of new housing e'states, and so forth: SUCCESS OF FUEL-ECONOMY • DEVICE HELPS RED CROSS
SOME months ago we referred to a new device which was being offered by David Brown Tractors, Ltd., Meltham, Huddersfield, free of charge to off owners of David Brown tractors on con, dition that a minimum contribiltion of is. waa made to the Red Cross Agriculture Fund with each application, thus assisting this worthy 'cause and, at :the same time, stitrifilating the fuel-economy
campaign. We now learn that this scheme was so well received that the company had been able to forward a cheque for £160 to the chairman of the Fund.
We learn -that a few of these devices are still available to David Brown owners sending the serial number' of their tractors and a minimum contribw: tion of Is. for each machine. The whole cost of the device, package and postage is borne by the company. MOTORING BODIES . PRESS FOR IMPROVEMENTS
A 'LITTLE time ago the R.A.C., the A.A. and the R.S.i51.C:. formed a standing joint committee, This has agreed a -polity Which includes the encouragement of Motorways, improved main roads and new through highways. It also adywiates a co-ordinated systern of lighting or streets, the building of tunnels and bridges to improve road communications, and other modifications for which the motor industry has been pressing for year.
ZENITH CARBURETTERS' WAR CONTRIBUTION
AN interesting exhibition of photographs and carburetters was recently held, by the Zenith Carburetter Co., Ltd., to. demonstrate to its employees the .vital part that the company's products are performing in the war:. It showed how vital a part is the carburetter of all those different, types of petrol engine' which are used in all „spheres ofwar activity.
The exhibition included Some stirring . war pictures illustrating the many uses to which the internal-combustion engine is being put on land, on sea and in the air, in which directions the Zenith carburetter is performing with efficiency and reliability. ,
-PERSONAL PARS MR. T. ROBERTS was re-elected Chairman and Ma, G. XV. TiTomasox chairman at the annual meeting . of A.R.O.'s Barnsley Sub-area. .
MR. A. F. Witts has been elected chairman and Massas. A,.-W :AYElay and H. C. SALISBI,RY ViCe-ChaiTIrtell of. the Western Area of A.R.O.
MR. MICHAEL DEWAR; O. B.E. , M. A A.M.I.C.E., .A.M.T.E.E., Chairman of British Timken, Ltd., and Fischer Bearings Co., Ltd„ and a director of Cincinnati Milling Machines, Ltd., as well as of a number of electrical companies. has been chosen. as High Sheriff of Hertfordshire for the current year.
MR. STUART CARTMELL, ViltO.Se portrait appears on this page, has been appointed home sales manager of Leyland Motors, Ltd.. He joined the cornpany as an apprentice in 1911. During the 1914-1918 war he served first with the M.T. Section of the A.S.C. and afterwards as battalion engineer with the Tank Corps. -At 'the close of the war be _returned to the Leyland sales staff in the Manchester area, where he remained until he took up the position , r>f north-eastern area sales manager in Leeds in 1924. During the past two yearshe has been managing • M.A.P. shadow factory for the company.
Ma. A. W. Wilma, who, for the past 19 years, has been on the overseas sales staff • of Leyland Motors, Ltd., at its headquarters at Leyland, has been appointed overseas sales manager to the company. Upon demobilization after the 1914-1918 war he joined the Leyland concern' and for-Eix years was on the company's London office staff until he went north.'
TWO AUSTIN MODELS NOW AVAILABLE
TWO commercial-vehicle models are
• in production at the works of the
• Austin -,Motor Co., Ltd., and are available against M.O.W.T. licences. These are the 2-ton long-wheelbase dassis and the 5-ton long-wheelbase chassis. Both are fitted with six-cylinderecl engines of 85 mm. bore and 101.6 mm. strake, the driver's position, in each
case, being semi-forward. .
Either model can be had in the following forms at the prices given:— 2-tonner: -chassis, 2315 10S.; chassis and cab, £347 10s.; platform lorry, £370 10s.; drop-side lorry, £380 .10s. 5-tonner: chassis, £404; ^ chassis and cab, £436; platform lifrry, 2479; drop.
side lorry, 2494. .
HEALTHY STATE OF BOLTON'S MUNICIPAL TRANSPORT
NET profit in the past Municipal year of the transport department of Bolton Corporation was £7,963, Cr £2,753 less than estimated. Tramways' .showed an improvement of 27,928, but buses were £10.681 below the estimate. During the present year a deficit of £6,211 was expected-21,989 on trams and £4,222 on buses—but there would be a.credit balance on the undertaking' of £75,000, besides substantial reserves.
No corporation in the country possesses a trading undertaking more sound financially than Bolton's transport department, says the chairman of the corporation's finance committee.
I.M.T. EXAMINATION ARRANGEMENTS IN future, the senior examinations of the Institute of the Motor Trade will be held only once a year—during May —and this practice will take effect as from 1945. The November examinations for the current year will take place as usual.
Commencing in May, 1946, the new syllabus will take effect for the senior examinations of the Institute governing admission to membership and associateMembership grades. This will mean that the May, 1946, examinations Will be held in preliminary, intermediate and final sections, so as to conform with the three years' course which was agreed last November by the Council.
TRAMS THE "GREATEST CAUSE OF ROADACCIDENTS" THE tramcar as a unit of modern transport was the greatest cause of read accidents, declared Councillor H. T. MacCalman, chairkian of the Clyde Regional Planning Advisory Committee and convener of Glasgow Corporation's highways arid planning commit*, in an address to the Town and Country Planning Association at Glasgow, last week.
The tram service4 he said, monopolized the middle of the road, causing other traffic to cut out, with danger to pedestrians. In the Chief Constable of Glasgow's report for 1943 particulars weie given of vehicles causing accidents, and it did not surprise those who had studied road conditions to find that the worst offender was the tramcar. It was his view that he tramways
system had a very limited future. The engineer-Toad planner, he added, had two main functions—to make the roads safe and to speed up communications. Roads should be designated as. arterial roads, sub-arterial roads,and local roads. No pedestrian should be allowed on an arterial road or subarterial road and should be compelled to cross either of them by bridge •or subway. Traffic should not be allowed to approach arterial roads from a housing estate, except at a limited number of points. Local roads should be roads upon which the pedestrian would have a primary right. GREAT BRITAIN'S FIRST TRAFFIC CLUB FOR WOMEN
RECENTLY, transport history was rnade il.here the Women's Traffic Club of Great Britain was fohned. This is the first organization of its kind. in the ,country and will operate on lines which have proved so successful in America. In the initial stages, it will .include, by invitation, women holding executive. rank -in all phases of transport and ancillary services, but, later, its ranks will be open to younger women in the profession, on sponsored applicetions.
An inaugural lunch i being planned to be held in London in June. Mrs. C. R. Taylor, Editor of "Transport Management," is its first chairman, and several -women with haulage • interests are ' amorfg,st the first council members.