HIGH DUTY ALLOYS AND HIDUMINIUM INTERESTS
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THE activities and control of Hiduminium Engineering, Ltd., a subsidiary of High Duty Alloys, Ltd.. have been changed, and the parent company has formed a new department: to continue the work formerly carried out by the first-mentioned concern. Incidentally, Mr. J. A. Heron, previously managing director of the Hidutninium concern, has severed his :onnection with it.
ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE OFFICER REQUIRED
AN interesting appointment will shortly be made by the Road Transport Organization jojnt Conference, which requires a chief executive officer to serve jointly the associations which are to be created to protect the interests of ancillary users and p.s.v. operators. We understand that a good
salary will be paid. .
Applicants must have persontdity, tact and organizing ability. They must state age, general experience and present salary, degrees, professional and technical qualifications, .and give precise details as to past and present employment. The duties will commence early in the New Year.
Applications, accompanied by a per
• sonal reference and business references covering at least seven years, must be submitted in triplicate not later than trc vember 16, to the Secretary, Road T-ansport Organization Joint Conferance, Room 350, Coastal Chambers, 15, h.lizal,eth Street, London, S.W.1,
CHANGE OF TITLE OF WELL. KNOWN MIDLAND COMPANY rONSEQUENT upon the reorganiza
tion of the capital and the acquisition by the managing director of other shareholders' interests, it has been decided to liquidate Sunsaloon Bodies, Ltd., Weston Lane, Greet, Birmingham; as from September 30, 1943, and to form another company registered as Weston Works (Birmingham), Ltd.
This change of name is principally occasioned by the many developments of the company's interests in fields of precision engineering other than those covered by the previous title.
Weston Works (Birmingham), Ltd., in taking over the business as a going concern 'will continue under the same direction and management. The governing director is Mr. D. A. Pearson.
• COMPENSATION FOR VEHICLE ACQUISITION WE have received a communication W from the M.O.W.T. concerning the article, " How the Compensation Act Operates," published in our issue dated
October I. 4 It refers to the third paragraph and concerns the amount payable for "-requisitioned vehicles. The main point is that compensation payable for acquisition under the Compensation (Defence) Act shall be a sum equal to the value of the vehicle immediately before the acquisition, " no account being taken of any appreciation due
to the emergency:: The latter important qualification was omitted from the article.
The clause clearly rules out enhanced values which have set in as a result of the war, and the GOvernment will pay compensation only on a basis that ' would have existed had there been no war.
BLACK-OUT RAISES ROAD. DEATHS TOTAL
ROAD-ACCIDENT figures just issued for September last contain a sharp reminder of the need for special care in the black-out. Deaths resulting from accidents during hours of darkness numbered 108, or 46 more than in August, and there was a proportionate increase in the number of injured during the black-out. The total road Casualties for the month were 455
killed and over 10,000 injured. • LONDON TRANSPORT DRIVERS OF MILITARY AGE
T,'HE London Passenger Transport .Board now has 6,756 drivers of •rnilitary age in its employ; 294 of these have joined the Board's service. since the outbreak of the war. In addition, 10,977 other male workers of military age are now in the Boatd's employ; 2,264 of them have joined the Board since the war. These figures include men who belong to low medical categories, and men who have been discharged from the Armed Forces.
WHAT A CONDUCTRESS MUST NOT DO
BUS conductresses when not on duty must not ring the bells on buses. This decision was given by Sheriff' Brown at Hamilton Sheriff Court, last week, when he imposed a fine of RI on a conductress for " belling away" a bus on which she was a passenger. Accused said that she thought she was entitled when in uniform to ring when the ordinary conductress was busy.
FIGURES NOT AVAILABLE FOR A-LICENCE WORKERS
LT AST week, in the House of ComLemons, Mr. Noel-Baker told Mr. Mathers that information was not available as to the total number of staff employed by road-transport undertakings operating under A licences, or the numbers in ,the different categories. of employment, showing manual workers separated from clerical, supervisory and technical staffs.
DRIVERS WASTE PETROL ON JOURNEYS HOME TO MEALS
TM.O.W.T. at Birmingham has circularized lorry owners, urging them -not to allow employees tO use vehicles for journeying to their homes for meals. This was mentioned during a case at Birmingham Folice Court when a M.O.W.T. officer said that 900 galls, of petrol were wasted last month in the Birmingham area by lrivers taking lorries home at lunch time. This figure, be explained, was arrived at from statistics in discovered offences, but many probably went undetected.
LONDON'S BUS STOPPING-POST • SCHEME COMPLETED ,
I N a few days' time the huge task of replanning the sites of about 10,000 stopping-places on 1,586 miles of bus, trolleybus and tram routes, mainly in the London Transport Central area, will be finished. This programme, begun in July, 1942, has been completed in a
little over 16 months. "
The principal objects of the scheme Are the saving of rubber and fuel. Fewer stops mean less wear and tear on tyres, less fuel consumed, A.G.M. OF CONFERENCE OF , CLEARING HOUSES