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TUNNEL TRAFFIC GROWS.

29th April 1938, Page 33
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The London County Council reports a further traffic increase in Blackwall and Rotherhithe tunnels and on Woolwich ferry. Over a longer period the increase in the traffic is remarkable. in Blackwall tunnel the number of motor and horse-drawn vehicles is nearly six times that in 1914, in Rotherhithe tunnel, nearly four times, and on Woolwich ferry more than one and a half times, the ferry service in the period having been increased from two to three boats. The proportion of horse-drawn vehicles has been diminishing year by year.

Papers at Scottish Conference.

The following papers will be subrnitted at the Annual Conference of the Scottish Road Passenger Transport Association, to be held at the Athol! Palace Hotel, Pitlochry, May 25-28— " The Public Board System and Road Passenger Transport," by Mr. John Cliff, of the London Passenger Transport Board, and "Air Raid Precautions and Transport," by Mr. R. F. Smith, general manager. Corporation of Glasgow Transport Department.

Training for Works Managers.

A training and examination scheme ' for works managers has been established by the Works Management Association, Terminal House, 52, Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.1. Courses are being prepared in a number of technical colleges in the principal industrial districts, and when time has elapsed for candidates to complete the curricula, entrance by examination will be the basis of membership.

The Association was established seven years ago.

Gazogene Handbook from France.

A useful little handbook on the theory and practice of the gazogene for army vehicles has just been issued by the Motocycle Club de France. It may sound odd that a motorcycling institution should publish such a work, but the explanation is simple. Mechanization in the French Army proceeds at a pace which is constantly accelerating, thus with changing conditions the great national motorcycling Club has become a para-military body.

Instruction in all branches of military road transport is now given, and as there are already over 1,000 gasdriven vehicles operating in divisional supply trains, it follows that the club should issue such a booklet. The operation and maintenance of Panhard, Bediet, De Dion-Brandt and Gohin Poulenc gas-producers are dealt with.

"Harsh on West Coast Fishermen."

Fish salesmen and carriers at Unapool, in Western Ross, are complaining about the action of the Licensing Authorities in licensing their vehicles to operate only to the nearest railway station at Garve—or for a distance of 75 miles, in the event of the train being missed.

" It is a stipulation which operates harshly on us," said Mr. K. MacKenzie in an interview at Ullapool, last week. " A heavy catch may come in in the late afternoon; we have to get it ready for next day's Aberdeen market and it means hard work.

"The fish is carried by road to Garve—the only distance for which the vehicles are licensed. It may he that the last goods train has gone and the permit is then extended to Inverness.

If the last train has left Inverness, our fish have to lie for 24 hours before finding a sale at Aberdeen. It is very harsh on West Coast fishermen, whose big catches are very rare."

Commer and Karrier Show in South-East London.

M.T. Co. (Regal Garage), Ltd., is holding an exhibition of Commer and Karrier products at 814. Old Kent Road, London, S.E.15, from May 4-7, when a range of chassis and complete vehicles will be on view. Technical representatives from the makers' factory will be present. PERSONAL PARS.

SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL, M.B.E., has been appointed to 'the board of directors of the Ford Motor Co., Ltd. He fills the vacancy created by the death of Sir John Davies.

In referring last week to the appointment with Bromilow and Edwards, Ltd., and Wood Hoists, Ltd., of MR. A. Bongs, we should have added that he has been appointed sales manager.

After 40 years' service with the company, MR. W. ATKINSON, foreman pattern maker at the works of Leyland Motors, Ltd., is the first man to retire under the new staff-pensions scheme introduced by the company last year.

Mn. L. E. Tausrcorr, whose portrait appears on this page, takes up an appointment as East Midland representative for John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., on May 2. He has had a wide practical experience with all types of commercial vehicle and was first associated with the Thornycroft con cern in 1923.

After 15 years' association with design and estimating in connection with B. and E. hydraulic tipping gears, and, latterly, with Wood Hoists and Principality moving floors, Mn. H. W. SWIFT has been appointed salesengineer to the allied manufacturersBromilow and Edwards, Ltd., and Wood Hoists, Ltd.,Foundry Street Works, Bolton.

Luber-Finer Concession.

We are advised that a company is in process of formation, to be known as Luber-Finer (England), Ltd., which will be closely associated with R. H. Collier and Co., Ltd., South Yardley, Birmingham, to take over the sole concession for England and Wales (excepting the four northern counties) for the Luber-Finer oil refiner.

TROLL& YBUS LEGITIMACY QUERIED.

" The trolleybus is largely the offspring of unjust taxation." This remark was made by Mr. George Pate. chairman of Albion Motors, Ltd., when he presided at the recent annual meeting of the company. If it were taxed as the petrol bus or even as the oilengined bus, he said, less would be heard of its advantages. Intimating to the shareholders that the company had not yet embarked upon the manufacture of trolleybuses, Mr. Pate said it built such a chassis in 1934 and endeavoured to get Glasgow Corporation officials to make some tests of it; this they were not prepared to do then.

Pointing out the war-time danger to electric transport, Mr. Pate declared:— " The whole electric transport of a city could be put seriously out of gear by a determined attack from the air. On the other hand, every motorbus is an independent unit which can be switched on to a new route at a moment's notice."

S. and A. Drivers' Notebook.

Many concerns supply pocket diaries for motorists and drivers in general, but Stewart and Ardern, Ltd., Morita House, The Vale, Acton, London, W.3, has struck a new note, in a particularly neat notebook, which is not a diary, but resembles one. It has a renewable pad for notes and a permanent section, indexed in alphabetical form, and containing much useful information, such as motoring law and insurance pointers, in addition to a sectional map.


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