Army Driving Honours Shared
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AT the finish of the 1,200-mile Army Driving Championship at Bedford last Friday (The Commercial Motor, last week), 166 of the 181 entrants checked in after a drive which weather conditions had made tougher than the organizers had expected.
Some of the cross-country sections over War Department training areas had to be slightly modified to accept the competing field cars and laden 3-tonners. A helicopter of the Army Air Corps made a forced landing near Durham in the fog which bedevilled the drivers at intervals throughout the event, but there were only two minor accidents.
REstirrs
Trophy of the President, ftritish Army Motoring Association (winning team): 6 Teaming 13n. R.A.S C.; 2, 1 Training En, R.A.S.C.; 3. 1 Training Beat. R.E.
The Rover Trophy (best i.i.-tonner1: Gdsmn. Bond, 1 Gren. Gds. (Land-Royer); 2, 1../Cril.
9 Coy. R.A.S.C, (Austin Champ); 3, Spr. Higgins. 1 Trg. Rest. R.E. (Austin Champ).
Vauxhall Motors Trophy (best 3-touner): Cfn. Machin, R.E.M.E., Arhotheld (Bedford RE); 2, Gnr. Teague, 18 Fd. Rest. R.A. (Bedford EL); 3, Pie. English, 1 P. Anglian (Bedford RI).
Command Awards! Eastern, 1 R. West Kent; Southern, 22 L.A.A. Brat. LA.; Northern, 4/7 Dragoon Guards; Western, 27 L.A.A. Rest. R.A.; Scottish, 170 Provost Coy ; B.A.O.R., 14 Tps, Col. R.A.S.C.
RoSPA Cup: 9 Coy. R.A.S.C. Coupe des Dames: 71 Ind, Coy. W.R.A.C.
TRAFFIC WARDEN GUIDE
I N order to assist drivers of commercial.
vehicles in the London area to understand the requirements in parking meter zones where traffic wardens are on duty, the Traders Road Transport Association has prepared a guide, which is set out on two pages of its News-Letter, so that it can be displayed in the cab for the drivers to glance at. In view of the number of queries that has been received over traffic wardens, Mr. R. E. G. Brown, secretary of the London and home counties division, said this week that applications from non-member companies would be sympathetically con sidered, • • BRAKE-LINING MERGER
THE offer of the Cape Asbestos Co.,. Ltd., to acquire the A and B ordinary stock of Small and Parkes, Ltd., makers of Don brake linings, has become UPC011ditional. Small and Parkes will maintain their separate identity, but operate within the Cape Asisestos group. From January 1 Capaseo friction materials and industrial plastics will be made by a wholly owned subsidiary, Capaseo, Ltd.
POLICE WEATHER SERVICE A SERVICE which will help hauliers who have to send vehicles through Derbyshire in bad weather has been launched by the county's chief constable, Mr. W. Pitts. A telephone call to any divisional headquarters of Derbyshire Constabulary will provide an advance report on weather and road conditions in any part of the county. Also, drivers can make a personal -call on the police for up-to-date information if they expect to run into hazardous conditions on their journey.
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Three Sought, Two Granted
DARTIAL success attended Northern I (Allied) Trading and Transport Co., Ltd., when they asked the Scottish Licensing Authority in Glasgow last Friday to grant a variation of their A licence so as to replace three tractive units and a semi-trailer with heavier ones. The Authority, Mr. W. F. Quin, was told that the sole reason for the application was the unsuitability of the existing vehicles to do the work involved. Drivers would not stay on the vehicles. The company had spent some £2,000 on repairs, maintenance and spares in recent months in respect of five vehicles of the type involved.
Mr. Quin allowed two vehicles and the trailer, with operation of a third tractive unit on a temporary licence, already granted, giving the operator the chance to return if, at a later date, the grant proved unsatisfactory.
ONE BETWEEN THREE
PAA NEW B licence was. granted at Glasgow last Friday by the Scottish Licensing Authority to a group of three companies, associated in the textile trade. Applicants were Andrew Mitchell and Co., Ltd., holding company for James McIlwraith and Co., Ltd., and associate of Lynn Proofing Co., Ltd. The second company was a fully owned subsidiary, and the third had the same directors. Mr. I. M. Kerr, for the applicants, said that by operating one vehicle jointly, covering the goods of the three companies, substantial economies could be achieved and improved service given to. their. customers.
33 VEHICLES—THREE FITTERS A HAULAGE contractor, who was I-1 said to employ three fitters to maintain 33 lorries, was fined £50 last Friday by Runcorn magistrates. Gordon Hill, of Underwood Lane, Crewe, admitted a number of maintenance offences. A driver employed by him, Peter Buff, of Herbert Street, Crewe, was fined £6.
MOTORWAY ROUTE ANNOUNCED
A LINE of route for the 12-mile section ri of the proposed London-South Wales motorway, from Chiswick to Langley (Bucks), has 'been announced by the Ministry of Transport. For the first mile the motorway will be carried on a viaduct over the Great West Road.