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" Q.S." ON .THE TRANSPORT ACT
IN an attempt to explain to the opera tor, in simple 'language, that part Of the Transport Act, 1947, referring to road transport, and to help the buSY layer, 'Mr: G. W. Quick Smith, LL.B. (Lund.), has written " The Transport Act. 1947; as it Affect's Road Trans: port.The book is. published by the Thames • Bank Publishing? Co., Ltd., Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, at 25s. •
Mr. Quick Smith is in his element in this work and has produced a coin
paratively easily digested review of the Act. The Act itself, and the rules and regulations made under it; are included,so that the author's-interpretations may
be checked. .
The book also explains briefly the
effect on road transport 'of the acquisition of the railways 'by the British
Transport Commission, and shoWs,hoW the 1947 Act amends the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933.
In addition to a general index, there is a table of principal references which' relates to each section of the Act, to the page number of the author's interpretation of it, and: to the page number of the text of the Act, M.C.W. AND INTEGRAL CONSTRUCTION
AHANDSOME brochure prepared by Metropolitan-Cammell-Weymann Motor Bodies, Ltd., Vickers House, Broadway, London, S.W.1, to outline its history and illustrate examples of its work, states that in 1939 the production of 175 trolleybuses of chassisless construction was undertaken. •
"Later, single-deck chassisless buses were produced which have proved highly successful, arid even more recently integral construction has beets adopted in the production of singledeck trolleybtises for Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Auckland, New Zealand. Further developments in design will maintain
the position already established," the company.states.
In 16 years, The M.C.W. organization has 'supplied some 12,000 bodies to transport undertakings: all over' the %%Tied.
The concern has linked up with Leyland Motors,.:Ltd., in' producing the Olympic. series of chassisless Vehicles, which were described • and illustrated exclusively in The: COrnmercial Motor" on October 8.
• ... CALCULATING WAGES READY reckoner. forthe calculai—Ition of wages . of road-haulage workei-s under 12.11, (24) and R.H..(16). has been published by Road Haulage
Productions, Ltd.,, 113 Shoe Lane, London,. E.C.4, at ls.• It 'includes a summary of working conditions and a series of time-and-Mileage charts based on various average speeds.
• RUREAUCRACY 'IS EXPENSIVE THE danger of rising costs of administration in industry is stressed by L. Lirwick in "A Short Survey of Industrial Management." the first in a series of publications by the British Institute of Management as a contribution. to the field of management literature.
Every individual, he says, not engaged directly in producing goods or essential services imposes a triple burden on those who are.
The net cost to the _nation of 1,000 officials engaged in petrol rationing, for instance, is not merely 44,000 manhours per week. It is, says Mr. Urwick, 44,000 man-hours•per week lost to production, plus the man-hours per week devoted to maintaining these non-productive workers, plus whatever time ip spent by Motor users. garage proprietors. oil suppliers and others in meeting the requirements of the system. The author continues: "While the last figure is incalculable and the second is uncertain, it is probable that' the total burden imposed on the Productive workers of the community. is in the neighbourhood of 100,000 man-hours per week, or over 5,000,000 man-hours per annum."
.. CUPOLA 'OPERATION THOSE concerned in foundry work I will be interested in a publication recently issued by the Mond Nickel Co., Ltd., Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London, W.I.
Entitled "The Constant charge System of Cupola Operation," it deals with tbe use of a standard charge,so constituted as to produce an iron of constant composition, which, by the addition of suitable materials in practicable amounts, can be modified in chilling and other characteristics to suit the whole range of castings normally produced in any given foundry.
MAP READING MADE EASY A BOOK of maps On a scale Of 10
.miles to the inch, with a spiral binding which enables the book to he kept open at any selected page, has been published by Morris Motors, Ltd., at 3s. 6d. A thumbnail-operated index permits the required section to be located and brought into use with one hand. Plans of most. of the important cities and a table of distances are included.
ALL ABOUT THE EEL
ANEW publication by Steels Engineering Products, Ltd., 6, Avonmore Road, London, W.14, describes the •30-cwt. and 50-cwt. models of the Electric Eel, which have a patented system of "body-weight" steering. The 50-cwt. model has an elevating platform.