Meat Carriers Seek Expansion
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WHEN John Findlay and Co. (ConIT tractors), Ltd., Dundee, applied to the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority last week to add a vehicle to their fleet and to vary their licence so that they could work for United Carriers, Ltd., the Authority refused the extra vehicle and reserved his decision about an alteration in licence terms.
British Railways, which were stated to carry the greatest proportion of the meat which left Aberdeen, claimed that the applications would create wasteful competition. No serious complaints about their service had been made, an a statement by the Fatstock Marketim: Corporation, who supported the applicants, that road transport enabled meat to be "pitched' earlier at Smithfield was disputed.
Mr. W. Dixon Connachic, for the applicants, said that their facilities were more up to date, mobile and hygienic than rail transport.
R.S.A. PRIZES FOR 1955
Tw° prizes of £20 and one of 150 are offered by the Royal Society of Arts this year. The Benjamin Shaw prize of £20 is for an essay or model of a discovery to increase safety in industry, and the Fothergill prize, of the same amount, is for a new idea for the prevention or suppression of fire. The Howard prize of £50 is for the author of a treatise on some aspect of mechanical motive power.
Details can be obtained from the Royal Society of Arts, John Adam Street, London, W.C.2.