SAVING TRANSPORT BY LOCAL CONSUIVJ A PTION A NEW scheme to assist
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in economiz ing transport has been announced by Lord Leathers, Minister of War Transport. Briefly, the Government is arranging for the more localized consiimption of supplies, and goods produced in or near any particular locality, this applying to fuel, clothing, food, 1 drink, and certain °thee articles. When this scheme develops, well-known brands manufactured in the North of England may be unobtainable in London or the South generally, the reverse, o,1 course, holding good.
This resembles the recent suggestion we put forward as to workers being accomModated nearer their jobs to avoid the criss-crossing Of iVassenger traffic. '
CHESTER TO FIT SNOW-PLOUGHS TO BUSES
CHESTER Transport Committee has ...adopted a -suggestion by the Cheshire county surveyor that arrangements should be made for snow-ploughs to ' be fitted' to corporation buses to clear the bus routes operated by the corporation in the county area, at a charge to the county council of 7s. 6d. per hour.
U.S.A. ASSOCIATION SUGGESTS MORE ROAD TRANSPORT.
THE National Planning Association, U.S.A.,. has issued a warning that the nation's transport .system faces a serious crisis, and it Makes recommendations for the more efficientaise'of the transport facilities, including Government action to ' eliminate highway barriers and to promote, closer co-ordination between different types of carrier.
It predicts a shortage of 40060 rail. way-ywagogs if the defence production programine is to be advanced according to plan: There should be co-ordination of priyate and contract carriers with common carriers to prevent empty movement and idle vehicles at night; ,pooling of available equipment,-particularly in the short-distance and local-delivery fields; an extension to road carriers of the emergency powers which the Interstate Commerce Commission now has over railways, and revision of State laws that hamper the movement of road vehicles.
It also recommends that loads to 'be carried less than 300 miles should be transferred to the road. This would release some 80,000 railway trucks for other service.
AN EFFICIENT TRACTOR-TRAILER OUTFIT WiE publish on this page a picture of VV a Kamer Bantam tractor-trailer outfit in the service of John Knight, Ltd., Silvertown,. London. The Bantam tractor, which incorporates a four-cylindered power unit developing 40 b.h.p.; has a taming circle of only 24 ft. and, by virtue of its patent coupling and braking gear, trailers can be quickly coupled and uncoupled without the need for the driver to leave his cab.
One of the outstanding features pf. the Bantam is its ability. to work with a variety of quickly detachable trailers: thus enabling 1he motive.. unit to be continuously employed with one or other of its attendant trailers, whilst others are being loaded or unloaded.
In the field of transport outside that of long distance, the Bantam tractortrailer outfit is proving particularly valuable for the economical and efficient transport of 5-ton loads in urban areas.
. THIS IS IN :CONFIDENCE
OtiR paragraph concerning revision,s in the Standing Joint Committee scheme, which we published on October 17, contained a remark•which has disturbed the composure of one -of our friends who is Editor of another trans. portjournl. We referred to the pnblislied resume of a draft marked " Private and Confidential,” but he assures us that he received permission to make his comments. We, therefore, hasten to make the amende honor-able. However, we ,consider that' those responsible for the issue of the draft should have notified other road-transport joarnalsthat the original restriction had been withdrawn.
JAIL FOR ISgUING BOGUS INSURANCE COVER NOTES ,
D EMARKINGethat the issue of bogus I \cover notes cut at the very roots of compuIstasty motor insurance, the Recorder of Huddersfield, Mr. G. 11. B. Streatleild, .E.C., passed senteuee
12 months' imprisonment in the second cliVision on an insurance 4.yroker found guilty ol.thiS and other offeuees, at Hudderffield Quarter Sessions, last week.
The Chef Constable, Mr. James Chadwick, said that it had been the practice of the accused, Mr_ 0. E. Dale, of Salendine Nook, to issue cover notes though he knew he could not obtain insurance policies.
The Recorder said that it was a highly dangerous practice Ahich might
lead motor users into serious financial embarrassment and even bankruptcy, and might result in injured persons or the dependants of deceased persons going uncompensated.
One of the witnesses for the prosecution, Mr. Frank Barraelough, of Crosland Moor, said that he had been unable to licence his van ;because a eoyer note which he obtained from Dale was invalid.
Dale, who said he considered the jury's verdict a proper one, pleaded for leniency, saying that no one had lost a penny.
COUNCIL PRAthED FOR FUEL ECONOMY QTOKE Newington Emergency Corn&.--?mittee liras receivedapproval from the Petroleum Department of the Colincirs report on petrol consumption for the month of August,' during,' which a saving of-27.98 per cent. was' effected in' the use of petrol for motor-vehicleii of the council. The Department has asked for further information of the method which has led to such satisfactory results, and the.transport officer is to provide details.