Rural Bus Services Must be Supported
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JF people living in rural areas wanted bus services they would have to support them, Mr. G. W. Duncan, deputy chairman of the Northern Traffic Commissioners, said last week. Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., were granted permisgton to curtail their summer services to the Duddon Valley, despite opposition from Ulverston Rural District Council and the Lake Districts Resorts Federation.
For Ribble. it was stated that only one service in the Furness area of Lancashire was operated at a profit. Mr. F. D. Youie, for the objectors, said the tourist trade would be injured if services were reduced to three days a week. Hardship would also be caused to old-age pensioners.
Mr. Duncan said the Commissioners
• were reluctant to reduce the already meagre services in rural districts, but tha fact had to be faced that in the past 10 years public support had been small.
RULES ON DUMPERS RELAXED L'ROM June 1, dumpers which are too wide or too long for normal use on the roads will be permitted to travel on the roads between private premises and ports, and vice versa, as well as between
private sites. The maximum unladen weight allowed to be imposed on any two wheels in line transversely is increased to 45 tons and the maximum weight on all Wheels to 25 tons.
The conditions under which such vehicles may be used are laid down in the Motor Vehicles (Authorization of Special Types) Order, 1958 (Stationery Office, 3d.).
AUSTIN 7-TONNER PRICES
IDRICES of the new Austin 7-ton models, described in The Commercial Motor last week, are as follows: 10-ft. and 12-ft. 6-in, wheelbase chassis and cab, £1,162; 12-ft. 6-in, wheelbase drop-sider, 11,289; platform truck, £1,275 (additional purchase tax on these four models is £246 1 ls. 8d.); 13-ft. 4-in.-wheelbase chassis and cab, £1,165, drop-sidcr, 11,306, platform truck, £1,291 (additional purchase tax, £247 6s. 8d.).
900m. BRICKS BY L.B.C. FLEET THE fleet of the London Brick Co., Ltd., last year carried over 900m. bricks and brick equivalents, and covered more than 20.5m. miles into areas farther afield than ever before, said Mr. A. T. Worboys, chairman. in his annual state, meat last week.
During the period of fuel rationing, distribution was maintained by husbanding the company's own fuel stocks and the "splendid co-operation" of hauliers and the railways.
NEW I-H TRACTOR
A NEW track-laying tractor incorporar-Iting a Rolls-Royce engine is to be introduced by the International Harvester Co. of Great Britain, Ltd., 259 City Road, London, E.C.1. To be known as the BTD-20, it will have a transmission system with six speeds forward and reverse,