Voucher Service for Bedfords
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VOUCHER lubrication and maintenance services for Bedford vehicles have been introduced by Vauxhall Motors, Ltd. They are operated at standard charges by Bedford dealers anywhere in Great Britain.
A bOok of 10 vouchers for lubrication service can be obtained from any authorized dealer at a cost of £3 7s. 6d. The facility operates on either a time or distance basis, and provides for all the lubrication tasks recommended to be carried out every 1,000 miles (or monthly), together with the special items needed every 5,000 miles (or 5 months) and every 10,000 miles (or 10 months).
Maintenance-service vouchers cost £8 5s. for a book of 10. They provide for the lubrication service already described and for attention to a list of items that need to he checked or adjusted regularly. The frequency suggested is, again, every 1,000, 5,000 and 10,000 miles.
A road test is included at each 1,000mile interval, and reports are made on each occasion, so that the owner is aware of any attention that his vehicle may need.
A KEY EXECUTIVE THE profession of transport manager was comparatively new, but it was a key position in industry. said Mr. N. Prosser Brooke, at the annual dinner of the Manchester Centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration, last Friday. In recent years, the work of those concerned with the movement of passengers and goods had become far more complex, and access to comprehensive and accurate knowledge on the subject was of paramount importance.
In the 1.0.T.A., said Mr. Lawcs Coles, the man who could impart knowledge and the student who sought it were received with equal accord.
PARKING WITHOUT LIGHTS COACHES may be parked without
lights during the hours of darkness at each of the following points in the central area of London:—Golden Square, W.1, Soho Square, W.I, Lincolns Inn Fields, W.C.2, Red Lion Square, W.C.1, Fitzroy Square, W.1, Finsbury Square E.C.2, and Charterhouse Square, E:C.1. Lights may not, however, be extinguished when weather conditions are poor.
COUNCIL COACH TOURS TEN new luxury coaches for Aber
deen Corporation are expected to be delivered in July. They will replace single-deck buses on summer tours run by the corporation. Loudspeakers will be fitted so that the drivers can describe places of interest to the passengers.
167 RED PETROL CASES (IF 167 prosecutions involving the 'kJ use of commercial petrol in private cars, brought during the first three months of this year, 157 were successful. Apart from the suspension for 12 months of driving and Road Fund licences, fines totalled more than £3,400. In four cases, terms of A32 imprisonment varying from one month to nine months were imposed. Fines amounting to £100 or more were inflicted in seven instances.
NALGO GOING STRONG THE National Association of Local
Government Officers reports that the recruitment of road haulage officials is going well. Good progress is also being made with clerical and administrative grades of road passenger transport undertakings, particularly among company and m,unicipal officers in Scotland.
AUSTIN SERVICE WEEK
THE Lord Mayor of Belfast, Sir William F. Neill, win open an Austin service week to be held at the premises of H. Fergusons (Motors), Ltd., Adelaide Street, Belfast, from May 2-7. Many accessory suppliers will be sending exhibits.
Throughout the week, Austin owners will be able to bring their vehicles to the depot for a free test and report on condition. Some free servicing will also be given.
NEW ELECTRIC TOOLS
WEIGHT has been reduced, power increased and design improved in a new range of Thor Silver Line electric tools. The basic models are a Fin. drill, a sander and a polisher. From these, new Silver Line versions of several other electric tools. widely used in the motor industry, are being developed. Independent Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd., 40, Broadway, London, S.W.1, will supply further information.
BACK-AXLE TESTING GEAR
A SYSTEM for determining the effici ency of the transmission in rear axles has been developed by the General Electric Co., Ltd., Magnet House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2. This new system uses series resistance control, as opposed to differential field control employed in earlier types of similar apparatus.
The apparatus is designed to reproduce electrically the conditions prevailing when the vehicle is running on the road.
Manchester to Try s Again
fiANCHESTER Corporation has IVI been asked by the Ministry of Transport to submit a revised application for permission to increase motorbus and trolleybus fares. This decision follows talks between representatives of Manchester Transport Committee, the North Western Licensing Authority and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.
The undertaking seeks to raise the minimum fare from Id. to 10.; increase the cheap all-day travel tickets from Is. to Is. 6d., with a corresponding increase in the children's 6d. cheaptravel tickets, and raise the fares an certain routes from 2d. to 2-id. and 3d. to 4d.
The new application, to be submitted to the May meeting of the city council,
is on lines similar to the original one made in 1947.
• Coun. A. T. Barratt, chairman of the transport committee, said that this had not been rejected, but the Ministry required a new and more up-to-date presentation of the city's position.
APPEAL IN RED FUEL CASE
MOTICE of appeal has been given by
William Wiseman, proprietor of Owd Bill's Garage, Broughton Road, Skipton. Yorkshire, against convictions at Skipton Police Court for supplying commercial petrol for a private car, and of having commercial petrol in three pumps not marked "Commercial."
The case was reported in "The Commercial Motor last week.
EDUCATION FOR YOUTH
AMOTOR trade educational youth group, formed with the backing of the Leeds Centre of the Institute of the Motor Industry, was recently launched after a discussion during which seniors heard juniors speak bluntly of past disapPointments in the matter of trade education, of the attitude of some employers in this direction, and of doubts about prospects for reaching executive positions in the trade.