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DURING proceedings before the West Midland Licensing Authority, official discouragement and currency restrictions were stated by a road transport concern to be the reason why it had not taken advantage of a licence to run coach tours to Austria.
The company was objecting to an application by Tmnsglobe, Ltd., 39, Aston Street, Birmingham, for a licence to run weekly tours from Birmingham • to Vienna. According to the opposing operator, the application represented an impracticable project at the present • time. The Licensing Authority • deferred his decision.
Transglobe, Ltd., stated that its primary object was to cater for American tourists, who, would provide a minimum of 200 passengers over 10 to 12 weeks. The cost of the tour from Birmingham to Vienna, by way of Dover, Ostend and overland through Germany, would be £30 for two weeks, including accommodation.
NEW TOUR BY SOUTH MIDLAND
ANEW eight-day luxury coach tour has been arranged by South Midland Motor Services, Ltd. It will be from London to the Seabank Hotel, Porthcawl, Glamorgan, a fine place, containing 177 rooms, now owned by John Watts Hotels, Ltd. The tour can also be joined at Slough, Maidenhead, Henley-on-Thames or Oxford.
The cost, including gratuities, is £16 16s. for June, July and September, and £18. 18s. for August. There will be meals en route, dances, a motorboat trip, a whole-day steamer trip to Ilfracombe, coach trips into the Welsh mountains, to the Gower Peninsula, and other beauty spots. Seats will also be reserved at various shows.
N.T.D.A. CONFERENCE: SERIOUS BUSINESS
THE whole of the four-day conference to be held by the National 'Tyre Distributors Association at Harrogate, from May 24-27 inclusive, will be occupied by trade discussions and meetings. Mr. A. S. Fox, president, will officially open the conference at 11 a.m. on May 24, and in the evening the Mayor of Harrogate will give a reception and dance to all visitors. The annual general meeting and installation of the new president will take place during the conference.
Mr. Oliver Lyttleton, M.P., will be one of the prominent speakers. There will also be a full recreational programme.
STRUGGLE FOR OIL FILMED r't
A NEW, short, two-reel film in the
series "This Modern Age," issued by the J. Arthur Rank Organization, and distributed by General Film Distributors, Ltd., is entitled "Struggle for Oil." The story covers outstanding points in' a -period of 80 years, and indicates how the world's hunger for oil has increased at a rate which has forced the search for oil to be carried on throughout the world. The shots are impressive and include even the explosion of an atomic bomb.
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BULK TRANSPORT PAYS WITH VINEGAR' VEN before the present shortages occurred, oak casks up to hogshead size, were, because of the cost of purchase and maintenance, a problem, said Mr. R. A. Houghton (British Vinegars, Ltd.) at the January meeting of the Industrial Transport Association's Manchester branch.
3n consequence, his company had evolved a method of bulk delivery by stainless-steel tankers to storage tanks installed on customers' premises. The cask trade now represented only '42 per cent, of production, compared with 89 per cent. previously.
Careful siting of breweries in relation to, " bulk " customers had enabled empty running to be cut to the minimum : British Vinegars, Ltd., said Mr. Houghton, was still the sole concern in in this country to deliver vinegar in bulk by this means.
8,000,000 MILES WITHOUT ACCIDENT
nURI NG the past year' 193 drivers employed by J. Lyons and Co., Ltd., qualified for the safe-driving awards of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. • Mr. W. H. Gaunt, C.B.E., J.P., transport director, said at the presentation of the awards that the men had 'travelled 8,000,000 miles during the year. . Their total length of service with the company was 3,720 years.
One of the.rnen has been free from accident for 18 consecutive years.
Mr. S. I. Salmon said that during the heavy fog at the end of last year, only one small delivery had to be cancelled.
SAFE PARKING AT NIGHT
TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR supervision I. is now provided it the Smithfield Market car park, Sheffield, where heavy goods vehicles may be parked all night at a charge of 2s., and heavy goods vehicles with trailers at 3s.
The corporation'has taken over control of car parks and street parking places, of which there are altogether 17. There is a graduated scale Of charges for various periods and for vehicles of different types. COUNCIL REFUSED SERVICES: OBJECTS TO APPLICATION
IN A946, the Middleton Towers Holiday Camp applied to Morecambe and Heysham Corporation to provide road passenger transport services between the camp and, among other places, the local railway and coach stations and place of worship.
The corporation replied that it would not be possible to provide such services for two or even three years. As a result, the holiday camp bought and operated four vehicles. Last year, on the advice of the North-Western Licensing Authority, four express service licences were applied, for and granted. The corporation opposed the application and later lodged an appeal.
This appeal has now been dismissed by the Minister of Transport,whose representatives stated that the holiday camp should not be treated as a newcomer only because it did not apply for licences in 1946. Even if it had made application in 1946, the licences, he states, should have been granted. To have refused to do so would have meant the closing of the camp.
BETRO BREAKS ALL RECORDS IN its third year of operation, which ended on Monday, the British Export Trade Research Organization did more work for more concerns in more industries in more countries than ever before, said Lieut.-Col, H. A. P. Disney, director and secretary, at a Press conference last week.
He announced that two further permanent offices had been opened, eight tours by the Organization's " flying squads " had been made, and nearly a dozen more trade associations had become affiliated members. . Among the new engineering members were George Cohen, Sons and Co., Ltd., and Coventry Climax Engines,' Ltd. Extended visits had been Made by the director and research staff to Cardiff, Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Southampton and Bristol, and visits to Scotland were included in the plans for the present year.
TRIBUNAL HEARS SATURDAY
PAY CLAIM .
THEindependent tribunal appointed by the Minister of taboui, to arbitrate in the dispute over pay of time-and-a-half after 1 p.m. on Saturdays for employees of passenger transport undertakings heard evidence at the Ministry of Labour on January 27 and 28. Chairman of the tribunal was Mr. John Cameron, K.C., who'sat with Major-General Lord Burnham and Mr. James Bowman.
The tribunal heard claims of workers in London Transport, and municipal and private undertakings. Its report is expected in a few days.
GENEVA: 400 EXHIBITORS OVER 400 manufacturers will be exhibiting vehicles, cycles and accessories at the 19th Geneva International Salon from March 17-27. Because of the greater number of exhibitors, the covered floor space has been increased by half an acre" for the 1949 Show. An entirely new decorative scheinc, for stands and halls, will cost £R5,000.
MOTORWAYS ROAD-RAIL' PROBLEM
DURING the third reading of the Special Roads INN, in the House of Commons, on Monday, Mr. L. J. Callaghan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, denied that the construction of motorways would aggravate the road-rail. problem. The developments envisaged in the Bill would, in fact, help to solve transport problems, because the country's transport would be a co-ordinated public service, he said.
Mr. L. W. Joynson-Hicks stressed the importance of taking roads to the centre of a city and avoiding the toss, in congested urban areas, of time saved in travel on motorways. He hoped that the improvement in roads would enable vehicles to be built which would be suitable not only for use in this country, but also overseas.
STANDARD FOR TRACTOR HITCH
ASTANDARD (B.S. 1495), the main object of which is to enable any type of tractor to be hitched without difficulty, to any kind of iinplement, has
' been published by the British Standards Institution, 24, Victoria Street, London, S.W.1, at 2s.
It provides for the relative location of power take-off and drawbar hitch point, and lays down exact details of the shaft and splines to be used. It also contains dimensions of the power-takeoff master guard, as well as specifying belt speed and pulley width.
CLEANSING CONFERENCE PLANS
THE following programme has been arranged for the 51st Annual Conference, at Edinburgh, of the Institute of Public Cleansing:—
June 13: Evening, civic reception, Assembly Rooms.
June 14:. Welcome by Lord Provost; installation of president, Mr. H. Edridge, M.B.E., cleansing superintendent, Chesterfield; presidential address; film of /948 conference and vehicle demonstration (presented by Mr. N. G. Wilson, BSc,, Edinburgh); afternoon, visit to cleansing department and city tour.
June 15: "Mechanical Refuse Disposal," by Mr. P. D. Fairlie, deputy director cleansing, Gkasgow; "Refuse Collection: Problems of Operation and Control," by Mr. C. E. Scowcroft, cleansing superintendent, Bolton; aftern000, annual general meeting (corporate members); evening, buffet dance.
June 16: Vehicle exhibition and demonstration, Waverley Market.
June 17: "The Treatment and Utilization of Domestic Organic Waste, by Mr. H. Gurney, cleansing superintendent, Tottenham; "Open Forum" (topical talks of three minutes from delegates).
13,891 NEW VEHICLES IN NOVEMBER
REGISTRATIONS of new vehicles, other than cars and motorcycles, totalled 13,891 in November, 1948, a drop of 655 on the previous month's figure. The total for the first 11 months of last year rose to 171,832.
BENSTEAD DEPUTYCHAIRMAN OF B.T.C.
rrHE British Transport Commission I has appointed Mr. John Benstead, C.B.E., Minst.T., to be deputy-chairman. He was formerly general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, and has been a• member of the Commission since its inception. He has spent a lifetime in railway service.
IN A LINE. OR TWO Radio-telephony is to be installed in /2 Gateshead ambulances.
Esso fuel oils and gas oils are now available under their brand names, Gandy, Ltd., has moved its Leeds office and warehouse -to 9, Somers Street.
The Bicycle and Motorcycle Show will be held from October 21-29" at Earls Court, London..
To meet .rising transport costs, Dundee Town Council has unanimously decided in favour, of increasing penny fares 'to The Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund (Sheffield Centre) will hold a ball and cabaret at the City Hall. Sheffield, on February-16.
The address of: the Road Transport Executive's divisional manager, Midland Division (Freight), will be changed on February 11 to 30, Harborne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 1.5.