CARDIFF'S FIRE-EIGFITERS • OUT OF DATE, When Cardiff Finance Committee,
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on Monday, decided to approve a recommendation that a new fire-engine be purchased, estimated to cost £1,500, the chief constable (Mr. J. A. Wilson, 0.B.E.) emphasized the long period for which the fire-brigade equipment is expected to last.
He said that the new engine would replace one 20 years old and " they could not expect motor vehicles to last more than 20 years." Last year, the float capable of pumping about 2,500 gallons of water a minute was abandoned and, with the exception of one engine bought in 1935, all the engines were old and insufficiently mobile.
In the past year the fire brigade turned out five times in six minutes. The average time for turning out the first engine was seven seconds and 20 seconds for the second unit. A turnout in 20 seconds was not good enough for the city.
Authority Warns Applicant.
When an applicant before the Northern Scbtland Licensing Authority, at Aberdeen, on Monday, asked for his two licences to be combined, Mr. H. Riches, in acceding, remarked that the applicant would have to pay a little more attention to the way in whieh his vehicles were run. One of his drivers had been fined for failing to keep a daily record, another for careless driving and a third for having a load not properly adjusted.
He warned the same applicant to observe the Standard rate of wages, telling him that the pay for men driving 11-2-ton vehicles should be 54s. a week and not 50s.
hi other cases, in renewing licences, Mr. Riches advised applicants to tell the court where they operated. "I do not want," he said, " any person who has an A licence to say he is trading only between A and B, although he is normally working there, if he has also been trading somewhere else."
Shipping Guide for Hauliers.
The following is the number of ships arriving at the London docks, wharves and jetties named, from January 8-16 inclusive:---Docxs : Ring George V. 8: Royal Albert, 7; Royal Victoria, 5; Surrey Commercial, 5; East India, 1; South West India, 4; Tilbury, 11; Tilbury Stage,' 4; MilIwall, 5;Royal, 2; London, I. WHARVES:. • Hays, 6; Middleton' 1; Butlers, 1. Tilbury Jetty, 2; Regent's Canal, 1.
A Useful Transport Diary.
Each year, Industrial Transport Publications, Ltd., Dudley House, Southampton Street, London, W:C.2, issues a diary and handbook, which is of specific interest to transport operatives. This year's edition embodies a number of new features, including a cost calculator, a schedule of drivers' wages, decimal equivalents, tables of railway classifications, practical ideas for electing temporary repairs, etc.
All the established features of the diary have been carefully checked and • brought up to date, These include tables of road and rail mileages, a list of clearing houses, taxation rates, speed limits, Points on licensing, oilengined vehicle data, maintenance hints and running costs, railway classifications, passenger-train rates, etc.
In a cloth binding, the diary sells for Is. 6d_ but a leather edition is avail able at 2s. 6d. •
Death of Well-known Scots Haulier.
One of the, best-known haulage contractors in the west of Scotland, Mr. John F. Dunn, died last week-end. At the time of his death he had a large fleet of vehicles on the road. VEHICLE-PARKING CONTROL IN CHICHESTER.
We learn from the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers, which was represented at a public inquiry at Chichester, on September 30, that at a recent meeting of Chichester City Council it was reported that the Minister of Transport had decided to confirm the Order for the control of traffic in the city which formed the subject of the inquiry. Certain modifications have been made with regard to parking on a portion of the north side of East Street, and to the inclusion of an exemption fromthe limited parking period of any vehicle engaged in the removal of furniture.