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Journal PROFITS from the road transport and hotels of Coras lompair Eireann, the Irish Republic's national transport system, more than counterbalanced losses in the year to March 31 last on that organization's railways, docks and canals.
According to the C.I.E.'s fifth annual report, issued this week, the buses showed a surplus of £658,874 and the road freight department one of £147,380. After payment of interest, the total loss was £866,535.
Passenger receipts • were up by £97,000, the increase resulting mainly from the city services. Although more passengers were carried on the provincial buses, the revenue was little changed. This is attributed to the greater use of the services for intermediate journeys, coupled With some movement of long-distance passengers to rail.
Road freight tonnage increased by 417,000 and revenue by £64,779, there being substantial rises in county council hiring and in livestock traffic.
During the year, 13 single-deckers and 35 double-deckers were assembled and put into service. The report states that experience of modern buses and coaches has indicated that their life should be taken as 15 years.
The total passenger fleet was 42 up, standing at 1,049 at the end of the year. This number included 598 double-. deckers, 395 single-deckers and 50 coaches. The goods fleet included 636 lorries, 55. vans, 54 tractors, 33 horseboxes and 294 trailers.
A total of 42m. miles was run by the bus fleet and 290m. passengers were carried. Revenue per passenger-mile was 1.67d, on city services and 2.25d. in the provinces. The goods fleet covered over 13m. miles.
NEW DISTRIBUTION METHOD
ANEW method of distributing potatoes and carrots has been adopted by Baldry's, Ltd,, North Newbald, Yorks. They have installed a plant to package the produce in Diothene bags at the rate of 5,000 packages daily. The packages will be distributed throughout the Midlands and north by the company's own modern fleet, one of the largest in the north of England.
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ANEW monthly journal covering every phase of world industrial production and use of nuclear energy and its by-products is to be published by Temple Press Ltd.. Its title is Nuclear Engineering and the first issue will be published early in 1956.
It will be edited by Mr. E. N. Shaw, B.Sc., head of the research department of Isotope Developments, Ltd., since 1953, and a member of the nuclear physics division of the Atomic Energy Establishment at Harwell from 1947 to 1950.
WORLD'S LARGEST BRIDGE?
1-1. A PROPOSAL to build the largest
span suspension bridge in the world is contained in a report by consulting engineers commissioned by local authorities in the Humberside area. The bridge would provide a crossing of the Humber near Hull and the central section would be 4,500 ft. long.
A Parliamentary Bill would be necessary, and it is thought that the bridge could be opened in seven or eight years. The cost is estimated at approximately £13m.
FRIENDS OFF DUTY
WEmay be rivals in business, but off duty we are still the best of friends," said Mr. G. G. Wahlstrand, manager of the Tees-side Group of British Road Services, at the group's annual dance. Private hauliers and their employees, many of them former B.R.S. men, were among the 200 guests.