Hauliers' Offer To C.I.E.
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D R1V ATE hauliers in Eire are prepared to consider a plan to take over the road traffic now handled by Coras Iompair Eireann, should the C.I.E. decide to drop that section of its activities. Mr. C. Meehan, chairman of the United Lorry Owners' Association, has stated that the Association is in favour of such a scheme as a basis for negotiations with the C.1.E. and the Minister for Industry and Commerce, Three advantages would result from such an arrangement, he says. The C.I.E. would be assured a profit, instead of a loss of £19,000 a year; the private haulier would he able to earn a fair living, and taxpayers' money would be saved with an assurance to the community of an improved road service.
A spokesman of the C.I.E. has commented that consultants were preparing a report on the road haulage section, but as it had not yet been considered by the board, the question of the abolition of the section had not yet arisen.
GLASGOW EXPERIMENTS FOR THE IDEAL
A SATISFACTORY system of multi1-"k cipal transport in Glasgow could be evolved only after experimenting with all types of vehicle, said Lord Provost V. D. Warren, last week. He was speaking at a dinner to mark the acceptance by the Ministry of Transport of the new B.U.T.-M.C.W. 26-seater singledeck trolleybus which will shortly be introduced on city services. The vehicle was shown at Earls Court last September and has standing space for 36 passengers.
The transport department, he went on, was experimenting with different types of vehicle and was drawing on its experience and that of other authorities to devise a plan for the city which would ease congestion and provide cheap and adequate services.
Mr. E. R. L. Fitzpayne, general manager of the department, said that the introduction of trolleybuses to Glasgow had proved most successful. At Is. 6d. per mile their operating cost was the lowest of any form of transport in the country, he claimed.
GATESHEAD SEEKS TRAM CONVERSION
THEquestions of converting tram services to motorbus operation and the introduction of circular routes have been considered by the transport advisory committee set up under the Gateshead and District Tramways and Motor Bus Act. The committee has been informed that the chief constable objects to 8-ft.-wide buses running over the High Level bridge into Newcastle.
"MECHANIZED AGRICULTURE"
nESCRIBING the mechanization of
British farming, "Mechanized Agriculture," by Cornelius Davies, has been published by Temple Press Ltd., Bowling Green Lane, London, E.C.1, at 8s. 6d. (8s. 9d. by post), The book describes what has been accomplished in this sphere since 1939 and the problems which still exist.