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W1HEN Barton Transport, Ltd., W applied at Nottingham last week for the reinstatement of a service between Kirk Hallam and Nottingham, it was said that there was a "territorial war" between the 'applicants and the Midland General Omnibus Co., Ltd.
It was stated that an earlier service ran from Kirk Hallam, an estate of 13,000 houses, through Stanton and Stapleford to Nottingham. The Ilkeston end of it was discontinued in May, 1953, because Midland General appealed against it.
Midland General proposed an alternative service from Kirk Hallam to Nottingham, via Trowell Church.
Mr. L. W. A. White, for Barton Transport, said: "For years there has been peaceful co-existence between the companies, but there seems to be a territorial war again."
There were strong family connections between the Rycroft Estate, Stapleford, and Kirk Hallam, and there were many men from Moorbridge Lane who worked at Stanton.
The hearing was adjourned for the Midland General application to be considered.
10 YEARS' BAN ON DANGEROUS , DRIVERS?
" A DANGEROUS driver should get
P'k at least 10 years' disqualification. If we want road safety, stringent measures must be taken," said Mr. W. Keenan when the House of Commons discussed road safety last week, He did not think roads should be made wider before there was a better sense of responsibility among drivers. The French practice of putting down cobblestones to prevent speeding should be followed. Nearly every bus, he asserted, exceeded 30 mph., sometimes even in restricted areas.
Mr. H. Nielson, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport. said that the number of casualties per 10,000 vehicles was 32 in 1930. but only 10.4 in 1453. In spite of the great increase in the speed of road traffic, measures taken by the Ministry and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents had greatly reduced accident figures.
The Minister, of Transport was withdrawing the new edition of the Highway Code and hoped to present a slightly amended version.
ALL C-LICENSEES INVITED
A LECTURE and film on the development of the oil engine will be presented at a meeting which any Clicensee is invited to attend at the Trent Bridge Hotel, Nottingham, next Tuesday evening. It has been arranged by the East Midland Division of the Traders' Road Transport Association. There will also be •a talk on traders' transport problems.
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Vauxhall Expansion Talks at Ministry
A PRELIMINARY informal discussion was held at the Ministry of Housing on Wednesday into the application by Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., for planning permission to extend their Luton works for increased production. An industrial development certificate has been given for the expansion, but the question of planning permission ..remained to be resolved.
The scheme involves an extension covering over lm. sq. ft. The meeting was between representatives of the Ministry, Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., Bedfordshire County Council, Luton and Dunstable Borough Councils, Lee Conservancy Catchment Board and the Metropolitan Water Board.
Under Section 15 of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, the Minister may call in a planning application for his own determination instead of leaving the decision to the local planning authority. The purpose of the meeting was to ensure that the nature and implications of the proposals were fully appreciated.
ROUTE REINSTATEMENT WOULD COST £13,700
IF Halifax Corporation's buses using 1 the new bus station at Crossfields operated along their original routes through the town centre, the additional annual cost would be £13,700.
This was stated by Aid. H. 0. Bower, chairman, at a meeting of the transport committee last week which rejected a petition signed by nearly 9,000 people asking for those facilities. Aid. Bower said that the requested re-routeing would involve 130,000 miles of extra running, four more buses and at least 10 more staff.
A few route changes had, however, been planned for the convenience of passengers.
DIRECT SERVICE ALLOWED IN the face of strong opposition from I British Railways and two coach operators, Messrs. Mulleys Motorways, Bury St. Edmunds, have been granted.a licence to operate an express service between Bury St. Edmunds and Clacton during the summer.
The objecting coach operators were Eastern Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd., and Messrs. Chambers, Butes. Eastern Counties said that passengers could travel to Sudbury by their buses, where they could change to a service provided by Messrs. Chambers to Colchester. Alternatively, they could travel to Ipswich, where they could take the Eastern National service to Clacton,
THERE are far too many unserviceable vehicles on the road in the Wee Midland Traffic Area. Over .120 vehicles have been examined in nine months and half of them were immediately prohibited from further use.
This was stated by Mr. M. T. A. Mathews when he prosecuted for the Ministry of Transport in a number of cases before Kidderminster magistrates last week.
"The Licensing Authority's view is that prevention is better than cure, and the Ministry does not in any circumstances accept the excuse that there has been no accident," he added.
Francis Frederick Emerson, a director of Emersons and Onions, Ltd., New Road, Kidderminster, was fined £10, with £2 4s. 6d. costs, for failing to keep a vehicle in fit condition. The company were fined £5 for permitting a vehicle to be used in unserviceable condition, £5 for allowing it to be used with an inefficient braking system, and £1 for letting it be used with a defective tyre, together with £2 4s. 6d. costs. .
TIN-ZINC PLATING NOW COMMERCIAL
ADVANCES which have been made in the process of plating, using tinzinc anodes, have been such that it is now being employed extensively on a commercial basis.
Articles treated with zinc are prevented from rusting only so long as the zinc itself resists corrosion, and whilst a tin coating has a high resistance to corrosion, it has no sacrificial action. As the normal tin coatings are extremely thin, the steel basis may rust _ at pores, holes, scratches or cut edges.
In the tin-zinc process the anodes used are an alloy consisting of 75 per cent, tin and 2,5 per cent. zinc, and the claims made for the process are based on combining the advantages of tin and zinc plating without their disadvantages.
Tin-zinc plating costs more than zinc plating, slightly less than tin plating and considerably less than cadmium.
The process is free from patent or other restrictions, and full technical details, and instructions can be obtained, free of charge, from the Tin Research Institute, Fraser Road, Greenford, Middx.
RELIANTS MADE IN ISRAEL
ASMALL factory for the assembly of Reliant three-wheelers has started work at Bath Galin, near Haifa, Israel. Chassis and engine parts are imported from Britain, but the bodywork is locally built.
The factory is owned by local interests in partnership with foreign investors, and has a franchise to export to 18 countries. An order for 35 vehicles has been received from Turkey.