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Advertisement Which ASMALL advertisement Appears to be Somewhich recently appeared in what Mixed . . . "The Yorkshire Evening Press" makes one wonder whether there was an error in the Copy or if the advertiser was more than usually motor-minded. Under the heading" Horses and Carriages" were the words :—" Active grey mare for sale, I5 h.p., six years, quiet in all gears, sound." He might have added that it will run on alternative fuels, and would not be included in the vehicle and tyre censu. s.
When Road, Rail and A N example of satisfactory Army Worked as a co-operation between road Unit and rail transport, the Army
and other Services, occurred recently at Middlesbrough, when the L.N.E.R. station was severely bombed one morning. The station was hit, some buildings smashed, the four through lines severed, a waiting train damaged and several people in the station and on the train killed and injured, but immediately the raid was over and the masonry had ceased to fall, men and women resumed their duties, some for unbroken spells. of 33 hours. Doctors, ambulances and A.R.P. workers were at their task within a few minutes, and they wereaccompanied by a Salvation Army mobile canteen. The Middlesbrough Corporation and the United Automobile Services, Ltd., at once offered alternative transport facilities.
and arrangements were completed within 15 minutes of the raid. Within 25 minutes a shuttle service of buses was in operation, this being announced by loud-speaker vans loaned by the local information committee and on L.N.E.R. handbill boards through. out the area., War workers were conveyed to their destinations by through buses. Road transport also dealt with newspapers, mails, milk, .fish and other perishable traffic for delivery in Middlesbrough from Stockton. Within an hour, 200 troops were hard at work clearing the debris, and the lines were clear for urgent loads in the early afternoon of the following day.
A Pleasure Trip on WE have driven a good many a Heavy Power vehicles, ranging from Grader motorcycles to buses, track
• vehicles and steam wagons,
some in the course Of business, others for pleasure, but we are quite eclipsed by the gerformance of a workman on a Government site who stated at the Malmesbury Police Court that he had once driven a power grader six miles to his lodgings, but, on this occasion, was summoned for using it to proceed three quarters of a mile for his dinner at the canteen and back. The type. of .machine he employed weighs some 8 tons and is 24 ft. long, and his journey cost him £2 for driving an uninsured vehicle and £1 for the misuse of the fuel.
Hauliers' Co-operative VARIOUS articles a,,pd notes Grouping Attracting V which we have published Much Attention . . concerning the possibilities of co-operative grouping amongst hauliers have attracted considerable attention throughout the country. This system of working certainly seems to possess many excellent features, not the least of which is that arrangements can be made so that when any member of a group has to join one of the Services, the group organizers will take over his vehicles and customers, and thus preserve his business until his return. There are many other advantages, including the possible linking up of such groups on a national basis, references to which we have already made. Another point is that transport can be conserved, because an operator who, otherwise, might be tempted to accept traffic unsuited to his particular vehicles, would, if he were in a group, pass this on to another member with better facilities.
THE C.M.U.A. reminds those
who have to carry oversize loads by road that full particulars of time of journey, destination, measurements,' etc.,must be made to the Divisional Road Engineer of the M. of W.T. High
ways Department in the areas..affected. If the movement is to take place through more than two Divisional Areas, details of a suitable route will Usually be more readily furnished by the headquarters of the Ministry. Hauliers are also responsible for notifying the police authorities, whilst notification of route does not relieve the haulier of the responsibility for satisfying himself that bridges on it are adequate for the load, or release him from any legal liability for damage to these or roads. An oversize load is considered to be that having one or more of the following overall minimum dimensions :—Length, 40 ft.; height, 12 ft. 6 ins.; width, 10 ft.; weight, 20 tons.
Good Advice on the Transport of Oversize Loads