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SOME war-time permits and other authorizations to use passenger and goods vehicles and to act as drivers and conductors of public service vehicle; are to be further extended by the Minister of Transport. The extension; are automatic, and are intendedto keep the authorizations effective until they can be brought under review and, where appropriate, replaced by new licences.
Under the Road Vehicles and Drivers Order, 1949, which comes into force on August 1, the authorizations are extended until July 31, 1950. They include defence permits to use goods vehicles and permits to use a public service vehicle, operate a road 'passenger service, act as driver or conductor of a public service vehicle, and as driver or conductor of a tram or trolleybus or as a driver of a hackney carriage in the Metropolitan Police District.
Ordinary driving licences and excise licences are not affected by the Order, which also consolidates the Emergency Powers (Defence) Road Vehicles and Drivers Order, 1943, and its amending orders.
ABOLISH TICKETS IN LONDON, . SAYS M.P. •
IN the House of Commons, last week, I Mr... Stokes Made the surprising sti' ggestion to the Minister of _Transport that, to save manpower and the general expenseof ,Printing, isiuing, punching, collecting and :counting ticketi, their Use should be abolished on buses and the underground railways in the Metropolitan Area. The Minister replied that the proposal was not practical; although he admitted that there,was a point of substance in the question raised.
Mr. Sidney Silverman asked whether the problem in London was very different from that in New York, where the issue of tickets on the buses and underground railways had long ago been abolished. The Minister replied that the finance of London Transport' was entirely different, and the proposal struck deeply at the financial results, T.S. FACTORIES OVERSEAS?
A CCORD1NG to Mr. V. C. Ponsonby, L;Achairman of Tilling Stevens, Ltd., at the annual general meeting last week, the company may set up assembly plants in selected countries. The whole of the export selling organization had been reorganized, he said, to consolidate existing connections and open up fresh markets. To reduce import duties and shipping costs, vehicles were being shipped knocked down for reassembly at their destination.
NEW-TYPE SIMNIONDS NUT IDENTICAL in respect of its dimen sions and principle of locking, the Simmonds Nylon nut, recently announced, employs nylon instead of the elastic fibre utilized in the original Simmonds product.
It is claimed that the new nut gives an improved performance under critical conditions, and its abiliq to adjust itself to thread irregularities shows it to have considerable advantages over nuts of the all-metal type.
An important application of the newtype nut is to chambers or tanks which have to be leak-proof. ln this case a cap-nut is used, the self-locking insert and cap being an integral moulding which affords a leak-proof seal. The maker is Simmonds Aerocessories, Ltd., Treforest, Glamorgan.
FOUR APPEALS IN SOUTH WALES
E'OUR appeals affecting decisions given in the South Wales Area (including two by the Deputy Licensing Authority) will be heard by the Appeal Tribunal at the City Hall, Cardiff, from August 3-5. The appellants are Vaughan Brothers (Contractors), Ltd., and W. J. Fussell (August 3), 1. G.
Dampier, Ltd., (August 4) and Edward Nicholas (August 5) The Railway Executive and Stateowned haulage companies figure prominently among the respondents.
CURVED SAFETY GLASS
A TECHNICAL bulletin recently 1-1 issued by the Triplex Safety Glass Co., Ltd., 1, Albemarle Street, London, W.1, deals with the use and design of curved safety glass. Intended mainly for body designers, the bulletin provides essential information concerning types of curvature which lend themselves to economical volume production combined with satisfactory optical qualities.
CHANGE IN CO-ORDINATION? ALTHOUGH the Metropolitan 1-1-Licensing Authority does not expect to hold regular sittings during August to deal with ordinary applications, he has arranged a special sitting on August 3. to consider modification of the co-ordinated services run by the Eastern Nat:-..inal Omnibus Co., Ltd., and Luton Corporation. It is described in "Notices and Proceedings" as "Phase 1."
Long Tours Not to be Encouraged
AN application to run tours from Dundee to Blackpool during the illuminations,, and on certain trades holidays, was withdrawn by Mr. Robert Dickson, Jnr., after Mr. Alex. Robertson, Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority, had said that the fuel shortage made it unwise for him to give official encouragement to such longdistance tours.
Mr. Dickson has a licence to operate three-day tours to Blackpool during July and August, and asked for an extension to operate from September 17 to October 31, and on certain holidays.
He said that he had private contracts to take 594 people to Blackpool on these tours in two weeks at the end of September. He had contract bookings as far ahead as the spring holiday and Victoria Day next year. The Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd., Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., and the Railway Executive objected.
Mr. R. W. Currie, for the bus companies, reckoned that Mr. Dickson would use 800 gallons of petrol for the 18 contract carriages that he was running to Blackpool. Mr. Dickson told him he had a balance of about 5,000 units of his petrol allocation.
Mr. Robert Palmer, chief traffic assistant of the S.M.T., said that Blackpool had never been a popular venue for passengers from Dundee. His company had a licence for a two-day tour to Blackpool, but did not make Dundee an allocation of fuel for the tour.
BUS STOPS MUST BE LIMITED
I N the House of Commons, last week, the Minister of Transport said that the need for economy was still as great as it was two years ago and that the general restriction on bus stops to four to the mile was justified. He was not aware that there was any unreasonable attitude towards a greater number of stops if need for them could be proved.