Scottish Hover Vehicle for Southdown?
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THE Southdown Motor Services application for Hovercraft operating licences (revealed in The Commercial Motor last week) is now known to include a Margate-to-Penzance over-water route and a charter service between all points on the U.K. coastline and Eire as well as south coast operations mentioned previously. At present the company is not interested in cross-Channel operations.
Although the application does not refer to the type of vehicle which Southdown intend using, it is understood that their primary interest at present is in the craft being built by William Denny and Bros..
TORIES TO DISCUSS POLLUTION
MOTIONS on transport and air pollution are among those on the agenda for the annual meeting of the Conservative and Unionist Central Council on March 15. One, from N.W. Leicester, deplores Government lethargy in improving road and rail services. Another, from N.E. Kent, is concerned. at the potential loss of rights of way for a future national traffic system which is made possible by the Railway Board's powers to dispose of land (under the Transport Bill).
A Chertsey Conservative Association motion deplores the air pollution and damage to health caused by diesel fumes, and calls upon the Government "to implement the law governing the emission of fumes."
TENDERS INVITED
TENDERS for work on a further stage of the 12-mile section of the LondonSouth Wales road (M4) between the Chiswick Flyover and Langley, Bucks, have been invited.
u20 Ltd., on Clydeside. This is due to be completed in 1962, and is said to be designed for development into a hoverbus carrying 70 to 90 passengers at around 25 m.p.h., hovering at about 1 ft.
(The significance of the Southdown application will be discussed in Licensing Casebook next week.) WORLD VEHICLE OUTPUT THE leading producers of commercial I vehicles in 1961 were the United States with 1,131,400; Japan, 562,500; the United Kingdom, 458,000; West Germany, 243,800; France, 180,000, and Italy, 64,000.