New Bulk Vehicles "A Tremendous Advance" DULK cement vehicles, claimed to be
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"a tremendous advance" on types now operated in Britain, are being manufactured by the Dalzell Electric Welding Co., Ltd. (Dewco), Belisha!, Lanarkshire, under licence from Klinger K.G.. Germany.
The Klinger system allows powdered cement to be loaded into silos, usually three on a large vehicle, but one if need
be on a smaller lorry. It is discharged at its destination at the rate of 1 ton a minute by means of a small compressor powered by a Volkswagen engine.
• Complete evacuation of hoppers is obtained, and the Klinger patent axialtype conveyor jet can push cement up a vertical pipe 150 ft, high, or along a ' horizontal pipe 100 yd. long. The silos can be removed when not required to give the operator a platform lorry.
Miss I. M. Hart, Dewco director, said last week: "The Klinger system is a tremendous advance in the transportation of bulk materials."
WHAT THE STRIKE COST
EARNINGS figures issued by the LL, British Transport Commission for the four weeks ended June 15 show a blank for London Transport road services, because of the strike, compared with £4,653,000 for the equivalent period of 1957. Aggregate earnings for the first 24 weeks of 1958 were £19,863,000, as against £27,719,000 for the first 24 weeks of 1957.
Revenue of L.T. railways at £2,237,000 rose from £1,716,000 in the sixth fourweek period, comparing 1958 with last year. Provincial and Scottish buses' earnings were £4,875,000, compared with £4,831,000 on the same basis, whilst their revenue for the first 24 weeks of this year, at £25,624,000, dropped from the 1957 figure of £26,406,000.