SPEEDING ON POLICE INSTRUCTIONS: CASE DISMISSED.
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, Doncaster West Riding Bench distnissed, Last Saturday, a speeding .summons brought against a Worksop van driver, Mr. Reginald Smith, who admitted driving along the Great North Road at 45 m.p.h. Mr. A. S. Furniss, defending, pointed out that Mr. Smith was driving in a line of private cars leaving the races at Doncaster in Leger Week and said that he was consistently waved on by the police to keep in the line of traffic.
The object of the police was to clear the traffic as quickly as possible, and the only obstruction occurred when Mr. Smith was pulled up by the patrol car. • 'I submit that this is a case Which should never have been brought," said Mr. Furniss.
Boost for Electrics.
A stimulus to the electric-vehicle movement is planned for October 14 at the Whitehall Road garage of Leeds Coi-poration, where an exhibition will be' held to explain the merits of electries. Theevent is open to suppliers of current, their staffs, potential users, etc. There will be a conference at 3 p.m, (the exhibition being open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) for supply officials, who will hear addresses by Mr. White, of Midland Dairies, Ltd., which runs 140 electrics for milk distribution, and by Mr. J. N. Waite, M.I.E.E., chief electrical engineer of Mill.
Coaches and Components Progress.
The Dennis concern was well represented at the opening, last week, of the spacious new showrooms of Coaches and Components. Ltd., at 469-471a, Holloway Road, London, N.7, and Sir Raymond Dennis, K.B.E., who officially declared the premises opened, was supported by Mr. W. Fish, director, Mr. W. Hobbs, 0.11E., and Mr. A. Homewood, London sales manager. The Coaches and Components concern, as is well known, is the distributor for Dennis products in London, north of the Thames, and, apart from its sales activities, it has developed an efficient service organization, and carries a good stock of spares.
Mr. E. F. Mays, a director, extended a welcome to Sir Raymond, who wished the company every success in its enterprise, and Mr. J. R. Pegley, co-director, after expressing appreciation of his visit, revealed the company's plans and intentions, during the course of which he hinted at a rise in prices of commercial-vehicle chassis. The Coaches and Components premises occupy 20,000 sq. ft. of space and, apart from the good showroom accommodation, there are extensive works and offices. An idea of the success which is being achieved can be gathered from the fact that the company has contracted to take £80,000 worth of chassis and bodies for 1937.
There was a good sprinkling of operators at the opening and they had
an opportunity of inspecting a number of products in the Dennis range, these including two 45-cwt. chassis .(one normal and one forward control),
A32 a Lancet chassis, a light 4-ton chassis, a 50-cwt. low-loading machinery carrier, two Lancet 32-seater coaches, one with a Dennis body and the other with a Duple body, a cattle truck with a Jennings body, and an 'Arrow Minor 26-seater.
A.R.O. Drive in Yorkshire.
Plans for a drive to secure new memhers were decided upon at an A.R.O. meeting, at Selby, on Monday. A list of local operators, not members of a trade association, was considered. Meetings are to be held in the villages in the district.
Hauliers to Move 3,000,000 Tons?
Excellent prospects for haulage business are held out in the Bridgend (Glam.) area in connection with the huge armament factory to be erected near Bridgend by the Government. A retaining wall, some 12 miles long, 10 ft. high and 2 ft. thick, is to enclose the site.
Inquiries for the delivery from South_ Glamorgan quarries of about 3,000,000 tons of stone to the site are being made. From the situation of many quarries, much of this tonnage would have to be delivered by road.
Expert Bodybuilder Available.
We know of a fully qualified bodybuilder and designer, age 44, with silver and bronze medals, and other awards in S.M.M. and T. and City and Guilds design competitions. He has held the position of chief designer or works manager with important bodybuilding and vehicle-manufacturing concerns, and has wide experience iia the construction of low-loading and doubledeck buses and all classes of coach. Letters addressed "Body Designer," care of the Editor, will be forwarded.
Important Vulcan Development.
A short time ago a new company was formed to take over from the receiver, as a going concern, the business of the Vulcan Motor and Engineering Co. (1906), Ltd. The manufacture of goods and passenger vehicles is to be continued, and the company confidently anticipates that development will result in a marked increase in sales.
It intends to keep abreast of the times with a range of models to suit modern requirements, and an announcement concerning these will be made towards the end of this month.