No SolutionAfter 1953—Prof. Walker
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" wE shall, I fear, emerge from the welter of words in 1953 as far from a settled and acceptable solution to the problem of competition in transport as we were in 1947," said Prof. Gilbert Walker, of Birmingham University, when he addressed the Merseyside and district section of the Institute of Transport, last week.
He asked what degrees of public obligation a large concern such as the railways might fairly be expected to carry when competing,with small hauliers, and what shape railway charges should assume in a competitive world.
Statesmen should not be addressing their minds to the administrative problems of denationalization, but to the obligations of a public carrier. There was an irreconcilable quarrel about the matter of ownership, whilst the fundamental question of a compromise betweesi free competition and public monopoly remained unsolved.
FREE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE A FREE service to employers seeking
technical and supervisory staffs is being offered by the Association of Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Technicians, 110, Park Street, London, W.I. an organization affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. The grades covered include foremen, planning and timestudy engineers, rate-fixers, works managers, personnel managers, chief engineers and chief inspectors.
The service includes free advertisements of vacancies in the Association's journal and in weekly vacancy lists. The system has been approved under the Notification of Vacancies Order, 1952.'
65-SEAT ROYAL TIGER
A SINGLE-DECKER to carry 65 I—% seated and 16 standing passengers has been put into service in the Orange Free State by the Welkom Bus Service. It is a Leyland Royal Tiger with a body built by Messrs. Wevell Bros., Johannesburg. The entrance is at the front and the gangway is offset to allow three passengers to be seated abreast on one side and two on the other. The length of the bus is 35 ft.
NO PARKING WITHOUT LIGHTS 'TEN drivers were each fined £1 by
Penrith magistrates, last week, for parking without lights in a Penrith street. It was stated that most of them had been unable to enter official parking places and had thought that so long as they parked nose-to-tail, with the front and rear vehicles showing lights, they would not be committing a breach of the law
COLOMBO TRAMS T9 GO THE first step towards replacing I Colombo's old trams with modern trolleybuses will be taken in January. Seventeen of the municipality's trolleybuses at present lying idle will be put into service,