30,000-ton Haul for New Mine
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TWENTY-FOUR sled trains, drawn by oil-engined tractors, are working around the clock in Manitoba. Canada, to move 30,000 tons of heavy equipment and supplies from the small settlement of Thicket Portage, on the Canadian National Railway, to the site of a new mine of the International Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd., 30 miles away in the Mystery-Moak Lakes area.
The work must be completed before the thaw sets in. Each train is manned by two crews. A round trip takes 14 hours, and on each journey 1,000 tons of material may be carried. In addition to this movement, some 4,000 tons of rails, ties and other supplies are being carried by tractor train for the railway spur line to link up the projected town of 'Thompson with the main line.
A new hydro-electric plant is to be built to provide power for the mine which, when it comes into use in 1960, will be second only to the company's mine in Ontario as the biggest individual nickel producer in the world.
MORE SUNDAY BUSES
FROM March 24, London Transport will re-introduce skeleton Sundaymorning services on 123 principal country bus. routes. Sunday-morning services in the country were stopped completely when fuel rationing began, but the fuel position, it is stated, will now allow a limited number of journeys to be run during the spring and summer. In addition, some country bus cuts will be restored on Sunday afternoons and evenings.
1366,000 SHARE OF PROFITS
ASUM of 1.366,000 is to be paid Out later this month to 15,618 participants in the profit-sharing scheme of Vauxhall Motors. Ltd. Each wilt receive an average of £23 8s. 10d, before tax. This is less than the amount paid out for the previous year because of rising costs and the effects on sales of credit restrictions and fuel rationing,
RESERVE FUND FOR BUSES
ARESERVE fund is to be built up by Halifax Transport Department to buy buses and save about £8,900 a year in interest charges. Forty doubledeckers are to be purchased between 1958 and 1962 and it is proposed that at least £20,000 be contributed towards starting the fund in the present financial year.
OBITUARY
IVE regret to record the deaths of MR. VV GEORGE MELVILLE MORGAN and MR. DOUGLAS E. ADAMS.
Mr. Morgan was traffic superintendent at Cardiff Transport Department. Aged 57, he joined the undertaking iri 1917.
Mr, Adams, who was 62, was traffic manager of the Durham division of United Automobile Services. Ltd., whom be joined in 1928.
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