Gen. Russell to be Member of 13.T.C.
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WHEN Lord Rusholme retires from VV his position of full-time member of the British Transport Commission on September 30. he will be replaced by Maj.-Gen. G. N. Russell. chairman of British Road Services. Gen. Russell is this year's president of the Institute of Transport.
Mr. K. W. C. Grand, general managet of the Western Region of British Railways, has been appointed whole-time member of the Commission to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. J. W. Watkins.
Whole-time members of the B.T.C. receive £7,500 a year.
UNITED CANNERS SWITCH TO RAIL implementing plans to distribute 'some 20,000 tons of canned products throughout the Greater London area, Beaulah Benedict Sales, Ltd., are to switch deliveries from their cannery at Boston, Lines, from road to rail.
The factory, United Canners, was previously served by the cornpany's own lorries and those of local haulage concerns. New plans, however, include the use of a floor of the East Smithfield goods depot, which is railway property. Here, the contents of a dozen wagons will be delivered daily, returning to Lincolnshire with loads of imported fruit. Other imported consignments for the Boston factory will be landed at Immingham and conveyed by rail to the cannery.
"R.H.A. LEAVE RAILWAYS AND B.R.S. TO OBJECT"
A WITNESS from British Road Services £1 told Maj. F. S. Eastwood, Yorkshire Licensing Authority, at Leeds, last week, that the Road Haulage Association were leaving the railways and B.R.S. to "carry the guns" and object to licence applications by private-enterprise operators.
He made this statement when Mr. J. Walker asked him why no private haulier had objected to an application by B. Booth, Ltd., East Morton, Keighley, for an A-licence vehicle. The application was refused.
[A previous hearing of the application was reported in The Commercial Motor on October 17, 1958.]
PERKINS DEAL UNCONDMONAL THE offer made on behalf of Massey1 Ferguson Holdings, Ltd., for the share capital of F. Perkins, Ltd., has now become unconditional. It has been accepted by holders of 89 per cent. of the shares. A price of I7s. 3d. has been offered for each of the 5.2m. Perkins 10s. ordinary shares.
"TAX OIL: CUT PETROL DUTY"
T"Yorkshire area council of the National Union of Mineworkers on Monday agreed to press for a 5 per cent. tax on fuel oil and a similar reduction in the duty on petrol. An almost similar proposal was made by The Commercial Motor on January 16.