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LoadingRecorder in L.T.E. Bus
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DEVICE which automatically records information about bus passenger loadings has been fitted to an RT doubledecker on country service by the London Transport Executive.
The equipment, called a Loadmeter,. was devised and used during 1958 by the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., but certain modifications have been made to the apparatus installed by the Executive.
The apparatus, which is actuated when a passenger takes his seat, provides a continuous record against a time scale, of the total number of seated passengers. . The equipment does-A.41j record loading points, but this information can be ascertained from the timings.
The Loadineter comprises an -electric. micro-switch under each s.eat. to send an electrical impulse to the recorder. On the L.T.E. bus the switch is set to operate at a pressure of 14 lb. .
FIRST COMMERCIAL PIPELINE IN BRITAIN_
PLANNING permission is being sought I to lay the first large-scale commercial pipeline for .refined petroleum products in this country. The 'Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd., plan to lay a 75-mile pipeline from Fawley to a new distribution depot near London Airport. The depot will have a capacity of 20m. gallons and the whole project will cost £21m.
All gradesof tight oil will be pumped to the new depot, from which deliveries will be made over awide area by road transport. Aviation fuels will go by special pipelines direct. to London Airport.
Work on the project is expected to start this year and be completed by the early part of 1963. The pipeline will be buried to a depth of at least 3 ft. and will pass under Southampton Water: and the River Thames.
'FREE BUSES FOR MOTORIST'S?
FREE bus travel from outlying car parks to the city centre for motorists is to be recommended to Newcastle upon Tyne, City Council. Motorists would pay 6d. to park their cars and be issued' with a, special receipt which would enable them to travel free on city buses.
Aid. T. Collins, chairman of the traffic committee, has said that most motorists could not afford to leave cars for long periods at parking meters. The best alternative was to provide cheap and easily accessible car parks.
GOODS—PRIORITY TRAFFIC E'ROM the viewpoint of the public, I goods transport is priority traffic and just as important as passenger services, says Mr. F. D. Fitz-Gerald, national secretary of the Traders' Road Transport Association, in the current issue of the T.R.T.A.
People who suggested that.delivery and collection of goods in busy streets should be done outside normal working hours did not appear to have given much thought to the staffing problems which would arise, he adds.