Trailer Warning Device by R.R.L.
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THE Road Research Laboratory was 1 developing a warning device to be fixed to lorries towing trailers, said Col. A. R. Forbes, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, when he addressed road-safety delegates from five Midland counties last week. It had been mentioned that many cyclists had been killed by striking trailers when emerging from the gutter after allowing what they had thought to be the only vehicle, the tractor, to pass. Col. Forbes urged that head lamps and spotlights be correctly aligned. All lights of goods and passenger vehicles should be set when the vehicles were fully laden. He discouraged the practice of driving with only the sidelights in use.
A resolution was passed urging that commercial vehicles be equipped with near-side as well as off-side mirrors.
B.M.M.O. GARAGE PLANS
THE Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., have opened a big garage extension at Wellington, Salop. The ceremony was performed by the West Midland Licensing Authority, Mr. W. P. James. The garage can now accommodate 50 buses, instead of 15, and incorporates Essex washing equipment The scheme is the third major outsidegarage extension to be completed since the war, the others being at Banbury and Sutton Coldfield. At the same time, entirely new garages have been built at Ludlow and Sheepcote Street, Birmingham. New garages are being erected at Malvern and Lichfield and Evesham garage is being greatly enlarged. The company's chief premises at Bearwood are being reconstructed. Future projects include new garages at Stafford and Wigston.
COMET DELIVERIES TREBLED rOR every Leyland Comet 90 delivered to home operators in the first eight months of 1952, more than three were supplied in the comparable period this year. The vehicles were sold to more than 260 different operators. Eighty per cent, of the total home deliveries were single vehicles, many of them going to small operators. A total of 211 Comet 90 tractors was delivered to Shell-Mex and 8.P., Ltd., to complete an order for 310.
NEW B.T.C. PUBLICITY SET-UP
PUBLIC relations and publicity sections of the four former executives of the British Transport Commission have been amalgamated under Mr. J. H. Brebner, chief public relations and publicity officer of the B.T.C. On October 12, his department will move from 55 Broadway, London, S.W.1, to the Commission's new headquarters at 222 Marylebone Road, London, N.W.I.