No Help for Free Hauliers from B.T.C.
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FREE hauliers could expect no assistance from the British Transport Commission, said Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, K.C.. M.P., at the annual banquet of the Metropolitan and South-eastern Area of the Road Haulage Association, in London, on Monday. The Commission, he pointed out, was encroaching into short-distance haulage and excluded traffics, but members of the Association were not depressed. Instead, they were showing greater skill and courage in giving their customers the services that only free hauliers could provide. ' The Association's campaign had persuaded Socialists to stay away from the House of Commons in sufficient numbers for the Transport (Amendment) Bill to pass through its second reading. He quoted the recent strike of workers at St, Pancras Station as an example of the difficulties brought about by the human element in trying to integrate transport. Sir David declared that production must have the transport it required. Mr. Frank F. Fowler, national chairman of the Association, said that even if the Transport (Amendment) Bill were thrown out, the industry would still win, because the public were coming to see that nationalization spelt the doom of efficient transport. Whatever happened, free hauliers would continue to fight for complete denationalization. He added that this would, in the short run, cause a loss to the public, but in the long run there would be an overall saving. Mr. C. W. H. Sparrow, area chairman, who presided, said that the function celebrated the second reading of the Bill.
MEDALS FOR B.T.C. MEN
IN London. last Friday, the Minister 1 of Transport, Mr. Alfred Barnes, presented British Empire Medals to three employees of the British Transport Commission who were gazetted in the New Year's Honours List. The recipients of the medals were Mr. A. J. Boon, garage foreman of the Southern National Omnibus Co., Ltd., Weymouth, Mr. J. C. D. McKenzie, garage hand and checker, of the Sandyford group of the Road Haulage Executive, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Mr. W. D. Menniss, a driver employed by the City :croup of the South-eastern Division,
MORRIS-COMMERCIAL PRICES RAISED
INCREASED prices for Morris' Commercial vehicles were announced yesterday. Typical prices, complete with purchase tax, are as follows:J-type van, £454 15s. 9d.; PV 15-20-cwt. van, £583 17s. 6d.; 2-3-ton shortwheelbase chassis, £584 17s.; tipper, £717 17s.; 2-3-ton long-wheelbase lorry, £689 13s. 6d. Prices of the 5-ton models, including purchase tax, are as follows:-5-ton short-wheelbase chassis (petrol engine), £756 17s. Id.; oil-engined version, £1,133 10s. 10d.; equivalent longwheelbase models, £765 15s. lid, and 11,141 4s. 2d. respectively. The petrol-engined 10-12-ton tractor unit costs £867 17s. Id., equipped with cab, and the oil-engined version, £1,270 Is. 1 Id. Passenger chassis cost £972 (oil engine) and £689 (petrol engine), on which a purchase tax of £269 5s. 6(1. and £190 14s. 3d. respectively are payable when thc chassis are used for other than passenger-carrying purposes.