LARGE EXPORT ORDERS FOR MORRIS-COMMERCIAL DIG orders from overseas have
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I-) recently been received by the commercial vehicle division of Nuffield Exports, Ltd. The Rhodesian Government has ordered 50 Morris-Commercial 5-ion tipping chassis with cabs. The metal bodies will be built by Messrs. Puzey and Payne, Nuffield distributors in the territory, who have also placed a contract for 25 3i-ton chassis.
Sixty forward-control oil-engined 5ton tippers are being supplied to the Transvaal Provincial Administration.
Egypt is taking six 500-gallon street sprinklers and 12 special 5-ton tippers, and a 500-gallon street sprinkler is being supplied to Angola, Portuguese West Africa.
Tanganyika Railways and Harbour Board has purchased 12 3k-ton chassis, 20 5-ton petrolengined 'chassis with cabs and four 5-ton oilers.
The first batch of Wolseley Oxford taxicabs for operation in Sydney has now been dispatched, and further shipments will be made almost immediately. New Zealand is buying eight ambulance chassis for St. John Ambulance Brigade.
ACCENT ON SAFETY
SAFE and dangerous methods of driving are admirably illustrated in a new booklet entitled "Calling all Drivers," which has been produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. lt is based on the Society's film of the same name. A copy should be in the hands of every trainee driver.
TRAINING FOR YOUTH
SPEAKING at a luncheon given by the Institute of Transport in honour of the Press, Mr. T. W. Royle, C.V.O., M.B.E., president, said that membership now "comfortably" exceeded 8,000 and that 1,200 entrants (a record number) took part in this year's examinations. He stressed the importance of training for juniors in transport and said that special attention had been paid to the formation of student and graduate sections in the provinces.
Among those present were Lord Ashfield, P.C.; Sir Cyril Hurcomb, G.C.B., K.B.E.; Mr. R. Kelso; Sir Joseph Nall, D.S.O., T.D., and Mr. 0. S. Szlumper (past presidents); Mr. V. M. Barrington-Ward,U.B.E., D.S.0.; Mr. R. Davidson. and Brig.-Gen. Sir H. Osborne Mance, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O. (vice-presidents); Mr. D. Lamb (president-elect) and Mr. W. Heck roodt, vice-chairman of the South African centre and deputy general manager of the South African Railways and Harbours.
Mr. Royle is shortly to retire from business after 50 years of railway service,
KEEPING OUT OF TROUBLE
qPEC1AL traffic systems, inchiding 4,--ione-way streets and no-waitingstreets, are shown on a new 'nap of the
West End of London. which has been prepared by the Automobile Association. It is on a scale of 14 ills. to the mile, and is printed in three colours on the reverse side of a revised edition of the Association's London route map. It should be extremely useful to drivers in London.
NEW LICENSING AUTHORITY
THE position of Scottish Licensing Authority, vacant since Mr, Archibald Henderson became a member of the Road Transport Executive, may he filled at an early date. A number of candidates has been interviewed.
ANOTHER WORKS TRUCK SHOW NEXT YEAR
RESULTS of the first National 1-‘ Mechanical Handling F.xhibition and Convention were so successful that another exhibition is likely to be held next year. The Associated :Wife Press, which promoted the exhibition on a non-profit-making 'basis, is expected to announce the date when replies have been received to a questionnaire addressed to all exhibitors. There have already been many requests for space.
Visitors numbered 4,000 a day, and the convention sessions were attended by up to 550 people. Visitors came from 23 countries and hundreds of thousands of pounds' worth of business was transacted.
HALF-FARES FOR 15-YEAR-OLDS?
A N attempt was made in the House PA of Commons last week to induce the Minister of Transport to direct the British Transport Commission to give a Lead in extending the half-fare facility to schoolchildren up to the age of ] 5 years. Sir Richard Aeland suggested that the Ministers of Transport and Education might devise a scheme by which transport companies and local authorities running buses might make the concession and reimburse themselves from the Ministry of Education.
The Minister of Transport refused to take the initiative in the matter, because, he said, if he did so he would be accepting a responsibility which he was not disposed to take.
A resolution in favour of extending the limit for children's half-fare travel by road to the new school-leaving age of 15 was tabled by Councillor John Rafferty, chairman of Leeds Passenger Transport Committee, at a meeting of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association's Yorkshire Area (which also includes Lincoln and Grimsby), at Lincoln, on July 22.
la order that it can he discussed with non-municipal operators, the matter was referred for consideration by the Yorkshire Regional Fares Committee, which advises the Yorkshire Licensing Authority on fares questions.
82,911 NEW VEHICLES
D EG1STRATIONS of new vehicles, IN-other than cars and motorcycles, advanced from 13,839 in April to 14,204 in May, bringing the total for the first five months of the year to
82,911. Registrations of vehicles by classes were:—