SEASONAL INCREASES OF DRIVERS' HOURS.
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'The Minister of Transport has made an Order varying the hours of drivers of C-licence vehicles during Christmas and the New Year. It will allow them to drive for 12 hours in all on not more than two days in each of the three Weeks ending on December 19 and 26, 1916, and January 2, 1937. The drivers of vehicles authorised under A and B licences arc not affected. In England and Wales a similar extension of hours, in their case, is already authorized by an existing Order.
Egypt Wants Fire Pumps.
The Egyptian Ministry of Public Health is calling for tenders, which have to be presented in Cairo by December 31, 1936, for the supply of three motor fire pumps. Those concerns in a position to offer pumps of United Kingdom manufacture may obtain fuller details from the Department of Overseas Trade, 35, Old Queen Street, London, S.W.1, reference TY2213 being quoted.
Discrepancy in Weight Figures.
A protest against the weighing machine at Neath was made at Neath Police Court, when a lorry driver was summoned for driving an eight-wheeled vehicle with a gross load over 22 tons, and the owners were summoned for permitting the alleged offence. The vehicle was said to weigh 23 tons 7.cwt.
The defence protested that, as it was possible to weigh only part of the lorry and load at a time, an accurate reading could not be given. The vehicle was hauded over to another driver at Cardiff, for taking to Liverpool. The police at Warrington pulled up the chine, and, when weighed by them, it was understood to be only 7 cwt. in excess.
The firm were fined 40s. and the driver ordered to pay costs.
Six Months to Secure New Vehicle.
Protest against delay in obtaining a further vehicle, caused by a railway objection, was made, last week, by the applicants, Messrs. E. and J. Cadman, Poynton, during a hearing before the North-Western Licensing Authority, Mr. W. Chamberlain. The application, for an additional vehicle of 21 tons on their B licence, was granted.
First published on May 28, the application was listed for hearing on September 21, but was not reached; the only objectors were the railways, After a hearing on October 19, the application was adjourned for figures of increased carryings to be analysed, so as to show whether private trade sales were included with haulage receipts.
On December 2, figures were produced showing the haulage side for nine months of 1936, to be three times as much as for the year 1932-33. It was agreed by a railway witness that the railways had no road vehicle at Poynton, but only a carting agent, also that the railway did not undertake the work done by the applicants.