Demand for Meat Vehicles
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ADEMAND for vehicles to take meat and meat products from Scotland to the south was mentioned before the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority at Inverness last week. Mr. Raymond Slaughter, wholesale meat merchant, of Cirantown-on-Spey, asked for a B licence for a 7-tonner to carry the products of Moray Firth Foods, Ltd., to all large markets in England.
The company have a processing factory near Inverness and the applicant told the court that whilst previously he took his products to the south in his own vehicle, he now sold his supplies to the company. He therefore wished to transport the foods from Inverness in his own vehicles.
Col. A. H. Campbell, managing director of the company, said that rabbits to the value of about £2,000 were being sent to England every month. Daily output at the factory was 1+ tons of different types of food. Transport of the goods was a highly specialized task.
The application was granted.
OBITUARY
VUE regret to record the death of Mn. Vir DAVID KEACHEE and Ma. ROBERT WILLIAM HANSON.
Mr. David Keachie was a former director and works manager of Albion Motors, Ltd. He was 87.
Mr. Hanson was associated with his father and brother in the Hanson group of transport concerns in this country and Canada. He was 29 and had been taken ill after touring Canada and the U.S.A. with the British show-jumping team. After undergoing several operations he had a relapse in June. FEWER LORRIES ON FARMS
THE biennial returns in the agricultural-machinery census for England and Wales, taken by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries last
January, and just issued, show a decline in the number of motor vehicles in use on farms, although tractor-trailers increased by 36,000, or 14 per cent.
The figures are: lorries and vans under 2 tons, 52,770; over 2 tons, 30,560; tractor-trailers, 299,000. The , previous census was taken in January, 1952, and produced the following figures: lorries and vans under 2 tons, 55,900; 2 tons and over, 33,500; tractortrailers, 263,100.
SINGLE-DECKER " STRETCHED "
AN old single-decker of the Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co., Ltd., has been extended to the maximum permissible legal length of 30 ft. by the insertion of a central extension of 2 ft. 5 in. The conversion was made by the bodybuilders, Willowbrook, Ltd., and has increased the seating capacity from 32 to 38.
It is proposed that 34 other vehicles of the same type be similarly enlarged.
£26,000 a Year
A DIRECT saving of at least £26,000 rta year would, it is claimed, result from various measures which the committee of -inquiry into Nottingham Transport Department have suggested.
Recommending that Urwick, Orr and Partners, Ltd., London, be engaged to carry out a detailed examination of the administration and works sections of the undertaking, the committee's report, which has been submitted to the city council, suggests the devising of a wages structure for both skilled and unskilled workers, giving an effective incentive, and negotiating a revision of the existing method of payment with the employees and the trade unions.
Such an incentive payment scheme is expected to result in an increase of working effectiveness of at least 25 per cent, which, after allowing for increased wages, would represent a saving of at least £20,000 a year.
It would also reduce the unserviceability period of vehicles by 25-20 per cent., thus increasing the effective strength of the fleet.
. Approximately £6,000 a year, states the report, could be saved by revising administration and clerical methods so as to improve cost-control information in respect of vehicle maintenance, labour and material costs.
The annual report of the transport committee shows a net loss on the past year of £1,513, against a net loss in the previous year of £76,059. Nearly 10m. fewer passengers were carried during the year.
Total income increased by £110,411 to £1,656,204. Working expenses amounted to nearly £1.5m., an increase of £9,757. Revenue from passengers, at £1,621,046, exceeded the previous year's figure by £111,653.
TWO TEST PROSECUTIONS
ANXIOUS to clarify the legal position on boarding and leaving buses at unspecified stops, Newcastle upon Tyne Transport Committee are to bring two test prosecutions against bus passengers.