CHASSIS EXPORTS MAKE GOOD SHOWING.
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The Board of Trade returns for April, 1937, show that the value of commercial vehicles, cars, chassis and accessories imported was £442,036, which is slightly lower than the cornparable return for 1936, when the figure was £459,426. The total value of imports for the first four months of the year was £1,879,292, compared with £1,730,825 for the corresponding period of 1936.
The number of complete commercial vehicles exported was 262, compared with 266 for April, 1936, the total for the January-April period being 1,710. against 926. The monthly value was £71,402 for April, 1937, and £76,478 for April, 1936, the total value for the opening four months of each year being £422,436 and £264,435 respectively.
Once again there was a marked increase in the number of commercial chassis exported, this year's total of 1,096 contrasting with 772 for April of last year, bringing the respective aggregates for the four months to 4,983 and :3,930. The monthly values were £184,886 and £111,063, those for the four months ending April being £793.976 for this year. and £584,982 for 1936.
Inquiry Follows Fines.
Proceedings brought against Edwards and Sons (Transport), Ltd., Cheriton, Kent (a constituent of Transport Services, Ltd.), had repercussions, last week, when Sir Henry Piggott, South Eastern Licensing Authority, held an inquiry at Canterbury to decide whether the company's A licence should be suspended or revoked. As reported in The Commercial Motor on April 16, the company was fined 1s. on each of
na 123 charges concerning drivers' hours and records, and ordered to pay £90 costs.
Mr. Norman Letts explained to Sir Henry Piggott that steps had been taken. to prevent recurrence of the offences. After making strong comments on the serious nature of the delinquencies, the Authority decided not to take further action.
Why Appeal Was Allowed.
In addition to decisions on the appeals listed in last week's issue, the Appeal Tribunal will, next Monday, give its reasons for allowing the appeal of William Boyer and Sons (Transport), Ltd., Feltham, against the Metropolitan Licensing Authority's refusal to grant the company an A licence. The Authority held that the 25 vehicles sought to be licensed should be authorized under a B licence.
The sitting will take place at King's Buildings, Smith Square, London, S.W.1, at 10.30 a.m.
Yorkshire Likes Wages Report.
The report of the Government committee of inquiry into wages and conditions is regarded among Yorkshire employers who opposed the findings of the old National Board and its constitution as a vindication of their attitude.
In these quarters it is considered that the report, in effect, endorses the views put before the committee by Yorkshire witnesses, that the old National Board was not sufficiently representative and that its decisions were too hasty. It is also pointed out that the validity of the Yorkshire scheme of wages and conditions, which the employers' panel of the Yorkshire Board put into operation, following its refusal to accept the scheme of the National Board, is upheld.
The comments by the committee of inquiry on the necessity of the stabilization of road-haulage rates, particularly as a means for controlling the owner-driver, form another feature of the report which is in agreement with the Yorkshire evidence placed before the committee.