ROAD-RAIL SCHEME TO HANDLE 35,000 TONS OF POTATOES
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ASCHEME mutually advantageous to road and rail has been organized to deal with some 35,000 tons of potatoes to be transported in the Penzance area during the first three weeks of this month by a road transport pool set up in the Penzance area.
The vehicles will deliver the potatoes mainly to sidings at Penzance and Marazion, and the object is to ensure that the potatoes will be carted to the station on the same day on which they are lifted. It is also hoped to avoid congestion of vehicles at the railhead. The scheme will not conflict with other arrangements made by growers and merchants. • The scheme was formulated at a general meeting of hauliers on May 19, where the Railway Executive and the National Farmers' Union were represented. A committee subsequently approved conditions and rates. This is a good example of co-operation between road and rail.
TYRE-SELLING STRUGGLE TO
RETURN • " AIA LL the pre-war problems of tyre
selling as we know them will rear their heads during this coming 12 months. . . . The final and determining factor as to whether orders shall be placed may well be a decision based upon the sort of service facilities available behind the' sale."
This was stated by Mr. Alan E. Batt, president of the National Association of Tyre Specialists, when he presented the report of the national council at the second general meeting last Saturday.
After the meeting there was a buffet dance at which many important tyre concerns were represented.
HELP FOR YOUTH
FORMULATION of a new national programme by the Institute of the Motor Industry to cater for youths in the trade was indicated at the annual meeting of the Institute's Leeds centre last week.
Mr. C. R. Crane, the centre's new chairman, said that many suggestions in this direction were embodied in a memorandum which LM .1. headquarters had circulated for consideration by centre and regional committees.
U.S. ADOPTS MOBILE P.O.
ANEW and rapidly expanding use for commercial vehicles in America is being found by the recently inaugurated Highway Post Office Service of the United States Post Office Depart
ment. Nine mobile post offices are already in operation on important routes linking cities in Pennsylvania. Kansas, Mississippi and California. The first started work on May 17.
TRANSPORT ENGINEER "FREE
PAA MAN of 43, trained in transport engineering, works management and transport management, and long experience with a commercial-vehicle manufacturer and a large fleet of ancillary vehicles, requires a suitable position. He is experienced in traffic control, maintenance, operating costs and legal requirements. Letters should be addressed "Transport Engineer," care of the Editor.
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