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TvIVHEN Halcyon Tours (Hull), Ltd.,
sought permission from the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners at Bridlington on Monday to run tours to Brussels. Paris and Interlaken, Mr. Carver, managing director, agreed with Mr. F. S. Marshall, for Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., that the applicants were in a privileged position.
Mr. Marshall submitted that if the licences were granted, Halcyon could fill their coaches before booking on behalf of other operators. His clients were authorized to operate Continental tours from Hull with a feeder service, on which 377 people had been carried from the city this year.
Mr. Carver stated that Blue Bird Coaches, whom he previously employed, had allowed their Continental tours licence to lapse in 1956. Halcyon had run private-hire coaches abroad successfully, and six vehicles were already booked for 1960.
Other objectors were Sheffield United. Tours, Ltd., Yorkshire Pool Services and the railways. The case Was adjourned.
CANADIAN CHASSIS TO BE MADE HERE?
MEGOTIATIONS are under way for 1 I the production in this country of a Canadian six-wheeled chassis. It will form the basis of a concrete mixer and agitator to be marketed by Blaw Knox, Ltd., 90 Brompton Road, London, S.W.3, and Crane Carrier Canada, Ltd., Toronto. Canada.
The chassis has a wheelbase of 11 ft. 4 in. and a Cummins 185 b.h.p. engine driving through a C.C.C.-Clark Transverter. This consists of a torque converter, a hydraulic multiple-disc clutch and a five-speed synchromesh gearbox. The flywheel power take-off, used to drive the Maw Knox Rex Adjusta-Wate mixer, eliminates complicated drive trains.
The Hendrickson rubber sprung double-drive rear bogie, with third differential, is of the type made by Eaton Axles, Ltd., in Britain. With a payload of 6 cu. yd. of concrete, the vehicle weighs under 20 tons. It will be shown at the Building Exhibition, s Olympia. London. which opens on November 18.
GOVERNMENT SATISFIED WITH HAULAGE SET-UP
THE Government are broadly satisfied, writes our political correspondent, with the present compromise which gives British Road Services the stimulus of competition from free hauliers. Road transport is not likely to be affected by the attention that the Government is going to give during the current Parliamentary session to tightening control over State-owned industries.
This is at the behest of back-bench Tories who have the railways mainly in mind. There may be proposals to run the railways like the Post Office, with administration in the charge of the Ministry of Transport.