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APPLICAT1ON is to be made by 1.1. Leicester Corporation to run buses beyond the city boundary to Nether Hall estate—an area where the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., provide services. Council houses have been built there.
It is further felt that the corporation have some claim to serve the district because some years ago they bought a private bus concern which operated in the Humberstone Garden City area', adjacent to the Nether Hall estate.
The transport department are to launch a campaign to educate the travelling public to tender the correct fares. Mr. J. Cooper, general manager, has said that if it resulted in the collection of only I per cent, more fares,. £10.000 would be added to income. It was felt that people unwittingly paid fares that were too low, but not that they deliberately avoided giving correct payment.
LOADING TIMES HALVED
VjEHICLE loading times have been V halved at the Renfrew factory of British Oil and Cake Mills. Ltd., where a 24-hour service is worked to clear 2.000-3,000 tons of animal foods every week.
Sacks are filled by a machine, stacked on pallets and taken by fork-lift trucks to the storage area. While being loaded, a pallet revolves on a turntable and the action of dropping a sack on to the pallet spins the turntable so that a vacant space is presented to the loader each time and he does not have to move away from the chute.
The storage area is divided into sections identified by letters and numbers. Thus, if " E5 " appears on the board above the foreman's office, the driver of a fork-lift truck knows to w'..;^% section he has to go to pick up a load.
T gables may also be employed in the vehicle loading bays. Pallets could be placed on them and moved away for reloading after the sacks have been taken off and placed on the lorries.
FUEL FAULTS QUICKLY FOUND A LTHOUGH there is little to get out
of order in a carburetter, fuelsystem troubles can often be a source of annoyance. Assistance in solving them can be acquired from "Carburetters and the Fuel System," the fourth edition of which has recently been published, price 2s., ty Temple Press Ltd., Bowling Green Lane, London, E.C.I.
The makes of carburetter dealt with include Zenith, Solex, S.U., Stromberg and Weber, and in all cases explanatory line drawings accompany the text. Other features dealt with are petrol injection, fuel pumps, the Autovac, air cleaners, and so on.
This booklet is the fifth and final work of a series, the other four cover
ing (1) how a car works, (2) its care and attention, (3) simple repair work, and (4) electrical systems.
INDIAN MANUFACTURING PLANS
THE Indian Government's policy in respect of the manufacture of vehicles, covers approval of the building of medium-weight lorries by the Studebaker and Dodge concerns, and it is hoped that Leyland Cornet and Royal Tiger models and MercedesBenz vehicles will be made later. The Government have forced to close down those companies engaged only in the assembly of vehicles—among them General Motors and Ford.
Successful I.o.T. Candidates Named
NAMES of 241 successful candidates in the associate-membership exam• ination and 461 in the graduateship examination are contained in the pass list for the 1954 examinations of the Institute of Transport. Total number of entrants was 1,321.
In parts 1 and 2 of the associate. membership examination, honours were gained by Mr. J. B. Mander, Mr. S. A. Curzon, Mr. J. C. Clymo and Mr. P. H. S. Wroe. Mr, I. D. Whyte gained honours in parts 1 and 2 of the graduateship examination. Mr. J. S.
Haygarth in part 1, and Mr. P. B. Brokenshire and Mr. E. Little in part 2.
A course on transport has been arranged at Ashridge College, Berkhamsted, Herts, for the week-end of September 17-20. It will be open to members and non-members. Applications for enrolment may be obtained from the secretary of the college.
Approval has been given for the formation of a discussion group of the Midland Section of the Institute for members in Coventry and Rugby, also for the formation of a Port Elizabeth and District Section of the Southern Africa Division. This will bring to six the number of Institute divisions in the Union.
NEW C.A.B.M.A. REGISTER ANEW edition of the register of the Canadian Association of British Manufacturers and Agencies has been published jointly by Kelly's Directories, Ltd., and Iliffe and Sons, Ltd., Dorset House, Stamford Street, London, S.E.1,
at 42s. net, or 44s. by post. The register includes a buyers' guide, a French-English glossary, lists of manufacturers and distributors, and is regarded as the Canadian buyer's standard work of reference in regard to the marketing of British products.
Warning on Poor Maintenance
A WARNING that Licensing
Authorities might have to consider their powers to suspend or revoke licences unless the standard of maintenance of vehicles improved was given by Mr. C. J. Reynolds, Ministry of Transport enforcement officer, last week. He was addressing the Potteries Area of the Traders' Road Transport Association.
He said that the standard of maintenance in the West Midland Division was low. About 50-60 per cent, of vehicles were defective. The onevehicle operator was not solely to blame, he thought, but long-distance vehicles were usually better kept than local-delivery vehicles.
Licensing Authorities were much alive to the general state of maintenance and bore in mind the vehicles which were passing from public to private ownership.
Mr. Reynolds stressed the importance of keeping proper records. There was much to be said for excusing drivers of local-delivery vehicles from keeping records, but they enabled operators to check the work of their men.
WHERE'S THE RUSH?" ASKS AUTHORITY
"WHERE is this terrible rush of
VV traffic for livestock hauling we have heard so much about? Where is this gap which was to be bridged from the day the Ministry of Food gave up meat marketing?"
These questions were posed by the Northern Licensing Authority last week when hearing the applications of Penrith cattle hauliers for extra tonnage.
" We heard of people screaming for livestock hauliers and expected to be inundated with applications for shortterm licences, yet I have had witness after witness coming before me saying this is a quiet time," he continued. He added: "It seems to me there has been a lot of anticipation which was not very intelligent."
AMENDMENTS TO CHARGES
M A NUMBER of amendments was "made to the Transport Charges, te. (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill in he House of Commons last week, Paragraph 1 (2) now reads: "fares ... ixed by the licensing authority" instead
"determined by the licensing uthority." Paragraph 2 (3) (a) reads: services to which the said First Chedule applies as they would have ad if this Act had not been passed," astead of "applies as they had nmediately before the said date." Paragraph 2 (3) (b) now has "part f" inserted before a reference to the irst Schedule in line 34.
An insertion in the First Schedule reserves any Order made under efence Regulation 56 and kept alive ader Clause 8. Another insertion preserves the right' of the PostmasterGeneral to have payment for the carriage of mails fixed by agreement or by the Transport Tribunal.
The Bill passed its third reading.
20 M.P.H. LIMIT DISCLAIMER
THIS is not a matter in which the Government are primarily concerned," stated Mr. H. Molson, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, last week, when he was questioned by Mr. Nabarro on the 20 m.p.h. speed limit. No change in the restriction could " wisely " be made until employers and the trade unions were in agreement about the modified labour conditions which would apply.
Expulsion Does Not Worry Birmingham
DECAUSE they do not wish to rejoin
the Federation of Municipal Transport Employers, Birmingham Transport Committee will take no legal ,action to compel the Federation to withdraw their expulsion of the Birmingham undertaking.
Birmingham was expelled because bus crews were granted a wage increase which had not been negotiated nationally. Ald. H. Watton, chairman of the transport committee, said last week that what the National Joint Industrial Council decided to do in the matter had still to be seen.
" We shall make no attempt to rejoin the Federation." he stated. " The Federation doesn't really matter. It's the N.J.I.C. that counts."
TALKS ON REMOVAL OF HULL CROSSINGS
1110 EPRESENTATIVES of the Govern I ment and the British Transport Commission are to be invited to .1 special meeting with Hull Town Planning Committee to discuss the proposed removal of the Anlaby Road and Hessle Road level crossings.
Mr. H. F. Alston, town planning officer, has estimated that delays at level crossings in the town cost £150,000 a year, on the assumption that an hour's delay costs 3s. per vehicle. Although the number of trains using the crossings has declined in recent years, the length of time of closures has not decreased in proportion.