Transport for the Great Trek
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1-t A COMMITTEE has been working since 1955 on the intricate transport arrangements for 31,000 scouts. rovers and scoutmasters who have travelled from 85 countries to the World Scout Jubilee Jamboree at Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield.
The jamboree began yesterday • and lasts until August 12„ The first task was to transport personal luggage and rucksacks from the reception centres to the seven camps by 14 5-ton lorries. Fifty vehicles are in daily use for camp administration; and for the distribution of an enormous quantity of food valued at £160,000, all of which will be cooked by the scouts themselves on wood fires.
Transport for over 100,000 visitors to the park each day has been arranged. The maximum use is being made of coaches, not only for arrivals and departures, hut for excursions. In conjunction with an excursion subcommittee, two excursions for every scout in camp have been arranged.
Several Birmingham concerns have placed cars and chauffeurs at the disposal of the committee for the formation of a pool of cars to transport important visitors from the Birmingham area to the park.
The scouts arrived by every method of transport. The Iranian contingent drove their own buses overland.
Mr. C. E. Jordan, chairman of the West Midland Division of the Tra,ders Road Transport Association, is chair, man of the transport committee. Mr. L. Patrick, divisional secretary. is honorary secretary of the committee. Both work under an assistant organizing commissioner (transport) and a deputyof the scout movement.
BOLTON BUYS DAIMLEKS
DOLTON'S first two Daimler buses1-1 part of an order for 21—were handed over to the corporation last Friday. All will have Gardner oil engines and Twillex centrifugal autoboxes. The chassis will also have automatic lubrication systems.
The vehicles will have 62-seat or 63seat all-metal bodies built by Metropolitan Cammell Weymann, Ltd., and East Lancashire Coachbuilders, Ltd. Both saloons are heated. As an experiment, 10 of the vehicles will have automatic doors.
The corporation have 17 more buses on order-7 Daimler and 10 Leyland— all of which will have 30-ft. chassis and accommodate 72 passengers.
NO-PAINT EXPERIMENT
TO help cut maintenance problems and fleet overheads, T. Wall and Sons (Meat Products), Ltd., are experimenting with unpainted aluminium bodies for their 350 vehicles. To test the idea they are using ai unpainted delivery van in the Uxbridge area. If successful, the scheme may be extended to their associated ice-cream company, which runs 1,300 vans.