Big Fleets for B.R.S. Companies in N. W.
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moRE than 1,000 vehicles and 406 trailers, with a total unladen weight of nearly 7,000 tons, have been transferred to two British Transport Commission cOmnanies in the North Western Area. British Road Services, Ltd., have taken 817 vehicles and 297 trailers (5,104A tons) and B.R.S. (Pickfords), Ltd., 217 vehicles and 109 trailers (1,681 tons). The distribution is as follows;- B.R.S.: Crewe. II vehicles (33?.; tons): Preston, 88 vehicles and 63 trailers (492);:2 tons); Liverpool, 120 vehicles and 66 trailers (856,4 tons): Warrington, 75 vehicles and 35 trailers (482 . tons); St. Helens, 54 vehicles and 10 trailers (4071/2 tons): Runcorn, 20 vehicles and 8 trailers (110 ions); Hindley, 22 vehicles and a trailer (I57,.1 tons); Chester. 59 vehicles and 22 trailers 1438 tons); Blackburn, 69 vehicles and 4 trailers (365 tons); Stalvbridge, 11 vehicles and 10 trailers (58 tons); Manchester, 191 vehicles and 56 trailers (WU, tons); Rochdale, 13 vehicles and 2 trailers (75.„',' tons); Salford. 41 vehicles (2185) tons); Bolton, 43 vehicles and 20 trailers (2475) tons).
Plehfordst.Liverpool, 54 vehicles and 39 trailers
(4841,,.. tons); Manchester, 78 vehicles and 39 trailers (698,4 tons): Stockport, three vehicles (9 tons); Southport. a vehicle (3 tons); Colwyn Bay, two vehicles (6 Ions); Nelson. four vehicles (I V) tons): Bromborough Port. six vehicles and three trailers (54 tons); Chester, 14 vehicles and tour trailers 1675) tons): Ell.svmere Port, 19 vehicles and nine trailers (172 tons); Warrington, three vehicles (9 tons); Blackpool, eight vehicles and four trailers (33-3., tons): Rochdale, a vehicle (3 tons): Preston. nine vehicles and 11 trailers (78 tons); Lancaster, a vehicle (3 tons); Crewe, two vehicles (6 tons); Burnley. 15511 vehicles (6 tons); Bolton, a vehicle 13 tons); Blackburn, a vehicle (3 tons); Altrincham, three vehicles 585) tons); Wallasey, four vehicles (117:,) tons): Littleborough. a vehicle (9!':, tons).
NEW AIR-COOLED OILER ANEW 25-30-cwt. chassis, powered by an air-cooled oil engine, is to be exhibited by Wales and Edwards, Ltd.. Shrewsbury, at the Dairy Show, which opens at Olympia on October 23. The vehicle is based on the existing W. and E. battery-electric chassis.
The engine is a 1.1-litre horizontally' opposed twin and the gearing used gives the vehicle a maximum road speed of 15-20 m.p.h.
Prototype tests have shown a fuelconsumption rate of 35 m.p.g. on local delivery work. The principal advantage of an air-cooled engine for this work is the elimination of freezing problems in N-‘, inter, together with an improved Fuelconsumption' rate. The new vehicle is not designed to replace battery-electrics, but merely to supplement them in very hilly areas and on " fringe" rounds.
PLASTICS PARTS TO BE QUANTITY PRODUCED
LIANTITY production of glass‘...e fibre reinforced plastics rods, bars, tubes and sheet is to be undertaken by Thermotank Plastic Engineering, Ltd., Chapelhall Works, near Glasgow. Special equipment has been installed in a new factory and it is claimed that the products will he sold at an economic price.
Rods and bars with diameters ranging from 1-1 in. will be available in continuous lengths. and tubes are to be produced with bores ranging from 1 in.2 ft. Any section normally produced as a metal extrusion will also be supplied.
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