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S0 as to obviate the risk of damage to 'vehicles as the result of enemy action, several Liverpool haulage concerns are pooling their garage space. Instead of each company having all its . own vehicles in its own garage, each has a small number in the various garages in the pool. If a garage be damaged, each concern will, through this arrangement, lose only a small part of its vehicle resources.
'WARE HIGH PRICES FOR USED VEHICLES
HAULIERS are warned against pay1 ling unreasonable prices for used vehicles. Talks are even now in progress with a view to releasing numbers of vehicles which have been requisitioned at various times and which have never turned a wheel since, and with a 4iew to obtaining the use of military vehicles for clearance of bombed sites and other work of an urgent nature. Sooner or later the market will break and someone is going to get left. If there be one .thing worse than being caught short it is being caught with the goods with the bottom out of the market.
• PLANNING FOR THE ROAD TRANSPORT OF THE FUTURE
SPEAKING at the Housing Centre luncheon in London on Tuesday' last, Mr. Boyd Bowman, M.A., of the British Road Federation, said that no planning for a post-war England could neglect the certaintythat road transport would play a still greater part in the social and economic life of Great Britain. 'Failure to plan nationally for the extraordinary growth of road transport in the 20 years previous to the war had imposed an immense burden of inefficiency on the country. Attempts to use a road system little improved since the 18th century had -resulted in a mounting toll of delay., danger and death, The only criterion of a good road .system is its adequacy for the demands made upon it; this country's was manifestly dangerous and inadequate. The community must not be compelled by such roads to suffer the evils of excessive urbanization.
All who may be concerned with material reconstruction will do well to remember that access to every. building is by road. Every inhabitant of GreatBritain is a user of road transport indirectly at all times and directly at most times.
Failure to plan and construct better roads would stultify almost every other material form of post-war reconstruction that might be attempted.
TRAFFIC AVAILABLE
TRAFFIC that is available to hauliers includes sugar from Ipswich to Kidderminster, hardcore from sidings and pits to aerodromes, fertilizer from Ipswich to St. NeotsRoyston-Bedford district, And greaves from Duxford, Cambs, to Attleborough (6-ton lots fortnightly).
Detailed information of any of this traffic can be obtained from Mr. G. W. Irwin, secretary, Eastern Area, A.R.O., 17, 'Hills Road, Cambridge. MIXING PARAFFIN WITH PETROL: HEAVY FINES
" THIS firm have moved heaven and 1 earth to get supplementary supplies of petrol without success, although they are engaged in carrying foodstuffs for the Government," Was the defence at Blackburn Police Court, when Messrs. Lloyd ,Bros., haulage contractors, of Bennington Street, Blackburn, were fined 50 for using paraffin as fuel for road vehicles, £..F,0 for mixing paraffin with petrol, • and £5 for not keeping the required record of oil, used for -road vehicles.
Mr. H. Dewhurst, for the Customs and Excise, said that one tank onthe firm's premises, which was supposed to contain oil fuel, was found,on analysis to have 80 per cent, of paraffin, whilst another tank for petrol was found to contain 20 per cent, of paraffin. It had been revealed that defendants purchased 800 gallons of paraffinwithin 12 months. The duty on paraffin was Id. per gallon and on oil fuel 9d. per Defendants, denying any attempt to evade duty, said that they acted throughout in what they consideredto be the national interest in keeping their Vehicles on the road.
YORKSHIRE COMMENTS ON GOVERNMENT'S POOL SCHEME " IT might be a good thing if it be handled right." This comment upon the Government's scheme for establishing its own road-haulage pool, by hiring vehicles from operators, Was made by Mr. Henry Burrill (of William Burrill, Ltd., Bradford and Littleborough, and of Holdsworth and Burrill, Bradford), who played a leading part in the establishment of roadhauliers' pools for the road transport of wool on the Government's behalf.
Mr. Burrill is chairman of one of these pools—West Riding Wool Transport .Pool, Ltd.—and liaison officer for the other—Yorkshire and Lancashire Hauliers, Ltd.—which is a.lso composed of West Riding hauliers. He said that there was plenty of work for West Riding hauliers, but there might be ." dead " vehicles in some areas.
Mr. Burrill also suggested that fuller use might be made of the vehicles operated by some hauliers in the small
towns. " They are content to peddle along in their own quiet way and make a living, but that is not enough in these days," he remarked.
A, representative of Blythe and Berwick (108). Ltd., Bradford, said that the company was already working at such pressure that it could do with a 75 per cent. increase in its fleet, and all the haulage concerns with which he was acquainted were also extremely busy.
"Empty running is at a minimum,he added. " My last returns show over 32,000 running,, with °iffy 500
miles of them empty. There is, of course, a certain amount of empty running on return journeys, hut it has been reduced to a negligible amount."
PERSONAL PARS • MEssRs. T. IIORIDWCKLE and A. IC, BRUCE have, the General Committee of the Diesel Engine Users Association announces, been awarded the Percy Still Medal for the session 1939-40 for their paper on "Herbert Akroyd
MR. JAMES CAMPBELL, manager, of the fleshing department, has been appointed to undertake the additional duties of transport manager for Glasgow Eastern Co-operative Society, consequent upon Mr. R. Naismith relinquishing that post to take up an appointment with the Ministry of Mines.
WAR.MEASURE CRITICISMS REJECTED
REMOVAL of direction signs, emission Of light from traffic lamps, and the black-out were subjected to adverse c.otnnient in Parliament last week. The Minister of Transport. "hoWever, told Six R. Glyn, with regard to the first-named, 'that whilst the inconvenience it caused was appre-• dated, the military situation didnot
• justify replacement of the signs. Mr. H. Morrison did not agree with Sir H. Williams's view that the blackout was achieving no useful object but doing much harm, and in connection with traffic lights stated that he was advised that, when masked in the official manner, they were of no help to pilots of enemy aircraft.
AGREED RATES IN CORNWALL
THE following schedule of minimum rates for the haulage of concrete blocks has been agreed and is to operate throughout Cornwall. It became operative on January 13, and a copy of. the
_rates has been lodged with the Regional"
Transport Commissioner, • ' The following conditions apply:7The terms are to be net cash within one month. Two men are to be provided to assist in loading: Where no weighbridge is available the computed weight is ft) be agreed between manufacturer and haulier. All blocky to be unloaded by the side of the vehicle,.
Any operator desiring further information regarding these rates • should connnunicate with Mr. Norman J. Bennett, secretary, Devon and Cornwall Area, kssociated Road Operators. 5, Princess Square, Plymouth It is worthy of note that this Association has been chiefly responsible for coming to this agreement. JOINT ORGANIZATION KEEPS UP ACTIVITY
.THE annual general meeting of the East Lancashire Road Transport Association and Commercial Motor Users Association (Joint Organization) was held, in Blackburn, a few days ago under the chairmanship of Mr. J. Ainsworth.
The secretary gave a. résumé of the annual report, dealing particularly with the questions of costing and rates, wages, war-time regulations, and the difficulties being experienced when working at the ports.
In the voting for the executive, the following were elected to vacancies on the committee :—Messrs. W. H. Bowker, John Kinder, and W. B. .Livese'y for Aand B-licence holders, and .H. Entwistle ars.d. H. Warsley for C-licence holders. Following the meeting a hot-pot supper was held.
H.S.G. OPENS NEW OFFICES
THE headquarters of High Speed Gas Transport, Ltd., maker of the H.S.G. producer-gas plant, has been transferred. from London to the company's works at Treforest Trading Estate, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire.A branch office has been established at Orchard House, 1, Castle Hill, Maidenhead. This new arrangement comes into operation as, from to-day, January 31.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR' WAR-DAMAGED ROADS
THE Minister of Transport informed Sir Adam Maitland, in the House of Commons last week, that it is the policy of the Government to maintain the responsibility of highway authorities
for all roads vested in them. The incidence of cost of repair or damage due to enemy action has been considered in connection with the War Damage Bill now before the House.
The Government's proposals will be indicated in an Amendment to stand in the name of the Chancellor of the Excltquer. • This Amendment, it was afterwards stated, is designed mainly to secure Treasury co-ordination of Paths'mentary control over the War Damage Commission to be formed under the Bill.
TRANSPORT SOCIETY'S TRIBUTE TO TECHNICAL PRESS
THE technical Press has, proved a valuable aid to the Yorkshire Transport Society in the maintenance of interest in its monthly meetings, indicated Mr. S. Scott, hon. secretary, in his report to the Society's annual meeting. Keen discussion, he stated, had been aroused by the reading of Press articles on transport topics—a procedure which was preferred to a formal syllabus, because of depletedattendances at the meetings owing to war-time circumstances.
The Society's merit prize, awarded annually to a transport student at Bradford Technical College, was won in 1940 by Mr. L. T. Merrall, an inspector in the Bradford Passenger-transport Department's service, who also gained an associateship of the Institute of Transport.
The officers and committee were Al6 re-elected, these including Mr. C. R. Tattam (general manager, Bradford Passenger-transport Department), presi. dent ; Mr. Charles Bragg (L.N.E.R.), chairman ; and Mr. S. Scott. (Bradford Passenger-transport Department), hon. secretary.
HENLEY'S LONDON ADDRESS
WE are advised that the London office of Henley's Tyre afid Rubber Co., Ltd., is now at 11, Holborn
Viaduct, E.C.1. All correspondence kir the *head office of the company should be sent to Springfield House, Westcott, Dorking, Surrey. BARNSLEY" AGREES TO RATES • REVISION
LARGELY by reason of the efforts of Mr. W. J. Lowe, secretary. Yorkshire Area, A.R.O., and Mr. Rodwell, Barnsley Corporation has now consented to a revision of the rates for the hire of mechanical transport by the corporation. In announcing these rates, Mr. Lowe acknowledges the courteous manner in which officials of the corporation received the representations which were made. The new rates are as follow :— Vehicle Capacity.
1 ton' ... lj tons .
2 tons ...
3 tons ... 4-5 tons 6-7 tons... Charge per hour s. d.
4 5 ... 411 ... 5 6 ... 6 7 ... 7 8 „. 8 3 DEATH OF MR. H. VINCENT
WE learnt recently, with 'great regret, of the death, at the comparatively early age of 62, of Mr. H. Vincent, managing director of Vincents of Reading, Ltd., the well-known coachbuilding concern. Mr. Vincent had a -far-reaching knowledge of the industry and was responsible for many bright ideas in commercial-vehicle bodywork.
EMPLOYMENT OF ARMY CIVILIAN DRIVERS IS ECONOMIC
APARLIAMENTARY question addressed last week, to the Secretary of State for War related to civilian drivers einployed to drive Army vehicles and to the wages, they were paid.
Captain Margesson replied that the War Department employed some civilian motor drivers in establishments under its control, but this did not apply to fighting units. They were paid at the ,trade union rate or other recognized local fair wage.
Civilian and military conditions of service 'and emoluments differed so widely that a fair comparison of the cost was difficult. Where civilians, particularly those who might be too old or otherwise unfit for military service, could be suitably employed, their replacement b-y soldiers would be 'an uneconomical use of tnan-power.
SIFBRONZE PERIODICAL NOW • AVAILABLE
UP to its usual high standard of interest and practical value, despite war-time conditions, the January issue of that bright little publication, " SifTips," produced by the Suffolk Iron Foundry (1920), Ltd., Stowmarket, maker of Sifbronze welding products,. is just out: In drawing our readers' attention to this booklet, we can hardly do better than reiterate a remark of its Editor contained in the leading article. In urging upon welders to plan now for the time when the war is over, he mentions that with the present shortage of spare. parts, welding is at a premium, but emphasizes that this is no war-time boom -and that when a new world is being-built out of the ruins of the old, welders will find their services in everincreasing demand.
R.T.C. CALLS FOR GREATER ORGANIZATION
r-rliE Chatham Sub-district Group Organizers. who claim to be the first in the country to organize themselves as a body, recently held their first annual luncheon when they entertained the Regional Transport Commissioner, Lieut.-Col. Gordon Tucker, his chief assistant, Capt. E. W. Phillips, and other guests, including Mr. D. Richardson, South-eastern Chairman of A.R.O., and Mr. P. L. Dicker, Chatham Subdistrict Manager. The event was an outstanding success, and the chairman
• of the group organizers, Mr. H. G. Russell, is to be congratulated.
During the course df his speech, the Transport Commissioner drew attention to the fact that the numbers of licensed vehicles showed a very slight decrease and, the petrol issue showed an increase, He stressed the importance and enhanced value of road transport to the Nation, which called for greater organization and preparation for what might well lie in the not too-distant future. He referred to the considerable work done for the industry by Mr. D. Richardson and to the co-operation lie had received from Mr. P. L. Dicker.
.Mr. H. G. Russell expressed concern at the difficulties under which road transport had been labouring and was still experiencing. Although his direct contacts with road transport were comparatively recent, he was amazed at the position he found, and expressed the hope that full realization of the country's needs would result in satisfactory action by the Government.
INVENTORY OF U.S. VEHICLES PLANNED •
PARTICULARS of all motor vehicles available for mobilization in the event of the United States being involved in war are to be entered on an inventory that will be taken by the Federal Government in co-operation with the various States.
LORRY DRIVER'S COURAGE REWARDED
HEROIC conduct at the 5.cene of an accident received recognition, on Saturday ltst, when Mr. W. H. Rowberry, a: driver on the staff of H. Viney and Co., Ltd., Preston, was presented with a cheque from his employers and the gold medallion of . the Transport and General Workers Union. The 'presentation was carried on': by Alderman J. A. Webb, of Salford, 'the area secretary • of the T. G.I/Sr,U. Mr. Row berry also received the 'pally Herald Medal of Industrial Heroism and a certificate. While he was driving a heavy wagon loaded with live shells it was hit by a private car which burst into flames. .The driver seized his extinguisher and was successful in bringing the outbreak under control; Mr. Rowberry risking his life in order to prevent an explosion which would probably have killed persons in • the vicinity. Two occupants of the car died as a result of the collision.